Today, I’m going to make what will be, for now, the last post in the Expert Beginner series. I edited the first post in the series to add a blurb about this, but I’ve actually been working on compiling these posts into an e-book that will sell for a few dollars. More specifics on the…
A short post today–I’m still sort of in frantic mode and switching gears in a variety of ways, but I didn’t want to go the whole week with just the one post. Some time back, I observed some people working on a project in which the team consisted of some developers of varying experience levels…
Over the course of my career I’ve done quite a number of technical interviews, and a pretty decent cross-section of them have ended in job offers or at least invitations to move on to the next step. That said, I am no expert and I am certainly no career coach, but I have developed some…
So far in the “Expert Beginner” series of posts, I’ve chronicled how Expert Beginners emerge and how they wind up infecting an entire software development group. Today I’d like to turn my attention to the rhetoric of this archetype in a software group already suffering from Expert Beginner-induced rot. In other words, I’m going to…
I’ve had trouble with the hosting of this site lately. As you may have noticed if you visit via the site instead of a feed reader, page load times had slowed to a crawl and sometimes the site was actually down. The hosting company, hostmonster, has provided me with good service over the last couple…
