I might be accused of link bait for a title like this, but I actually get a decent amount of questions that, when you distill them down to their bare essence, amount to this title. The questions are often packaged in narrative (possibly rant) form and almost invariably summed up with an apology for all…
I’ve heard people say things like, “we need to use the strategy pattern here” or “we need a repository layer between the services and domain objects.” Let’s take that at face value and assume that these are things that they “need” to do, in the sense that they’re solid solutions to some problem. The point…
In a comment on my post about how to resign from your company, I was asked about advice for a situation where you don’t like your job, but they’re paying more than any other competitors in the industry. In other words, what to do when leaving the company would mean that you’d personally take a…
More and more of my posts these days are in response to reader questions, but this one actually isn’t. However, I’ve been asked about specific aspects of this general theme frequently enough that I figured this was a good subject to cover. I’ve dealt with a lot of recruiters in my career, both as a…
It’s easy enough to look back and chuckle at your own foolishness in your younger days, but sometimes I have the weird, sadistic (masochistic?) thought that I’d like to rip a little hole in space-time so that I could get my money’s worth. I’d go back and actually belly laugh and point at 12 or…
