Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Telerik blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look around at their extensive product offering. In a whitepaper I wrote recently, I talked about two hypothetical organizations. I used them to offer a study in hyperbolic contrast….
Last Friday, I published a post called “The Polyglot’s Dilemma”. I had actually had a stubbed draft for this post, “Always Be Leaving,” before writing that one. But it turns out that post segues nicely into this one. Programmers (especially polyglots) face a dilemma wherein the thing that makes them most employable (broad generalist skills)…
Few things seem as institutional to the programming world as what I call the experience tuple. A company needs to hire someone to automate something, so, naturally, it asks the software development group to make alphabet soup for dice.com. “We need someone with (C#, XML, HTML, JS, ASP, MVC, REST, Angular, AJAX) with (React, MSTest,…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, download NDepend and give it a try. As an adult, I have learned that I have an introvert type personality. I do alright socially, don’t mind public speaking, and do not…
I’ve just returned from a vacation. So, after a week of R&R, I’m going to write a post instead of cross posting one. And I thought that getting back to reader questions after a hiatus might make for a good “welcome back” post. I mercifully do not struggle with writer’s block. As someone who gets…
