Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Badass 101

Lyndsey Padget.  Learner. Public speaker. Writer. Badass. Lyndsey gave this incredible session at Devup this year called Badass 101. I’d never heard Lyndsey before but this won’t be the last time I attend a session led by her, I can tell you that much.  This was different.  Different in a very good way!  It was … Read more Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Badass 101

Want Amazing Products? Build an Amazing Culture

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

The Best Job Description for a Software Development Manager Ever Written

… 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

gource is the source of course, of course

Recently, we rolled out a piece of software to our production systems where I work.  It’s been the largest project on which I’ve worked and it’s also taken the longest.  There have been a lot of ups and downs with creating this software, as there are with any software you write.

As with anything you create (you creative types know what I’m talking about) you look back and see things you could have done differently.  All in all though, I’m extremely proud of how our system has turned out.  The team has changed (literally) over the course of this application.  The architecture though, which I had a hand in coming up with, I’m happy to say has held together for everyone that’s been involved.

That seems like a good thing to me.

So to celebrate the release of our product, I created a movie to show our development of it.

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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