For Day 3 of Developer Hegemony Week, I’m going to up the stakes on the Thunderclap.IT campaign. If you sign up, you could win a free paperback copy of the book. I’m going to raffle off three books at random for everyone that signs up, but only if we meet the goal of 100 participants….
“Don’t worry. We’re not a staff aug firm or anything like that.” Years before this would matter to me, I remember some recruiter saying this to me on the phone. I didn’t know what “staff aug” meant, so I remember looking it up afterward. I won’t force you to do that, though. Staff Augmentation: a…
Since I boasted about this on Twitter, I have to follow through. I’m going to do “Developer Hegemony Week” on my blog, leading up to the book launch on May 2nd. (I suppose this makes Developer Hegemony Week a misnomer of sorts, since we’re talking about 9 days of posts.) I can think of no…
“Missionaries and mercenaries” has a pretty intriguing ring to it, huh? I wish I could claim credit for it, but I heard about it on this podcast with Ribbonfarm creator Venkat Rao. Apparently, entrepreneurs use this pithy phrase to make a distinction among themselves. I’ll explain in more detail shortly. First, however, I’d like to…
I got an awesome tweet at the Expert Beginner twitter account the other day. Omer had one of those “wow, I can’t believe I never thought of this myself” ideas. @ExpertBeginner1 how are you with anonymous contributions? open DMs? — Omer van Kloeten (@omervk) March 6, 2017 Yes, please. Up until this point, I have…
