I’m thinking this is going to wind up being a shorter post, and so might some others going forward. Fact of the matter is that I’m burning the candle at both ends a bit lately. I’m under contract for my next Pluralsight course, and I’m also mired in the bureaucratic morass of marching toward a…
For those that have been reading my more recent posts, which have typically been about broad-level software design or architecture concerns, I should probably issue a rant alert. This is somewhat of a meandering odyssey through the subject of the current prevalence of job hopping, particularly among the so-called millenial generation. I thought I might…
First, I’d like to make a brief aside to re-introduce Amanda Muledy (@eekitsabug) who, in addition to editing and writing, is also an artist. Lest you think that I have a single iota of drawing talent, any sketches that you see as post illustrations are her work, done specifically for the Daedtech blog. Her drawings are certainly…
Profitable Free Time If you’ve ever been invited to interview at Google or you simply keep up with the way it does things, you’re probably familiar with Google’s “20 percent time”. According to HowStuffWorks (of all places): Another famous benefit of working at Google is the 20 percent time program. Google allows its employees to…
There are a lot of ways in which you can do two or more things at once and succeed only in doing them very poorly, so I’m always in search of a way to do multiple things at once but to actually get value out of both things. As a programmer with an ever-longer commute,…
