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Dev up 2018 – What you missed

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After this year’s dev up conference in St Louis, MO I wanted to write my notes and thoughts here on my blog instead of just keeping them to myself (like I usually do). Sharing with the rest of the developer community … that’s in keeping with many of the speaker’s messages from the conference too … Read more Dev up 2018 – What you missed

Want Amazing Products? Build an Amazing Culture

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Back at my second real IT job, we did not have what some would call today “true” agile practices.    I say that because we did a great deal of up-front design work, requirements gathering, and signoffs.  Those are all things that most “agile” shops I’ve worked with avoid like the plague. Somehow though, at that job, we seemed … Read more Want Amazing Products? Build an Amazing Culture

How to Stop Letting Life Just Happen to You

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Are you letting life just happen to you? The other day, I found myself at work, and every few minutes I would check my email. No reason really which I could think of at the time. Do a little work. Check email. Do more work. Refresh email again. Not a fun day really. If you’re … Read more How to Stop Letting Life Just Happen to You

The Best Job Description for a Software Development Manager Ever Written

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… or Who I’d Want to Work For. There is a person I want to work for and an environment I want to be in.  Both of these are so hard to find.  If I were a software manager, this is also the person I’d strive to be for my team, as well as the healthy environment … Read more The Best Job Description for a Software Development Manager Ever Written

Make Burgundy, Not Excuses

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The Announcement In my last post, I mentioned it was near-time to announce a project on which I’m working.  Time to drop the excuses, time to stop putting things off until they are ‘perfect’, time to stop being afraid that “someone on the internet won’t like your idea”. Well today is that day. I don’t … Read more Make Burgundy, Not Excuses

For Non-Startups, Agile is Dumb, Go back to Waterfall

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Yeah I said it. Companies bigger than an actual startup, if you’re doing agile, just stop. Please for the love of the world, just stop. You’re likely kidding yourselves if you think you’re doing agile anyway. I have worked with small companies that are “doing agile” and I have worked at large companies that are … Read more For Non-Startups, Agile is Dumb, Go back to Waterfall

Get your free HTML5 exam voucher

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I’m looking at this free course right now and so far, I’m digging what I’m seeing.  Check out the details below in case you’re interested in picking up some HTML5.   Get ahead of your competition: Earn your MCSD certifications and start developing Windows 8 web and Windows store apps. We’ll get you started with … Read more Get your free HTML5 exam voucher

The Simpleton Pattern

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Simpleton UniversityNo, you read that correctly.  Simpleton, not Singleton is the subject of choice today.  Recently a fellow developer was looking over some code that I had written.

He commented on it by saying, “Rob I just love looking at your code.  It’s simple, easy to read, well-commented, and just makes sense”.

I replied, “Well that’s likely because I’m a simpleton”.

So jokes ensued with my friend asking, “Is that the design pattern you follow?”.  I thought, well yeah actually I guess it is and thus was born the idea for this blog post.

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