Category: Tech
Stop Complaining About Technical Debt If You Keep Creating More
Cleaning up old messes is meaningless if you're still making new ones. The best teams don't ask for permission to fix tech debt—they stop creating it in the first place.
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If AI Isn’t Making You Uncomfortable, You’re Not Using It Enough
The biggest AI problem right now? A lack of imagination. The chatbot era was training wheels—it’s time to take them off. If AI isn’t rewiring how you think, you’re not using it enough.
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7 Game-Changing Lessons Every Junior Developer Needs to Learn
Most developers spend years learning these lessons the hard way. You don't have to. Master these principles now and take control of your dev career.
Read moreAI-Native Development: The Next Evolution is Here
AI isn't coming. It's here. The teams that master AI-native development now will define the future of product delivery. Learn how to navigate this shift and accelerate your team.
Read moreYou're More Ready Than You Think: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome as a New Software Engineer
Struggling with imposter syndrome as a new software engineer? Learn why you're more ready than you think, and how to build confidence through action and learning.
Read morePrivate Class Methods in Ruby
Dive into the world of private class methods in Ruby. Understand their purpose, implementation, and when they're the right choice for your code.
Read moreWhen to Use Concerns vs Service Objects in Rails
Struggling to decide between concerns and service objects in Rails? This guide dives into the pros and cons of each approach, helping you choose the right tool for clean, scalable, and testable code.
Read moreChatGPT vs Human Tutors: The Future of Learning
Discover how ChatGPT is changing the landscape of education and tutoring, while understanding the unique value that human tutors bring to the learning experience.
Read moreRiding the Wave: Navigating SEO and Digital Marketing in the Age of ChatGPT
As ChatGPT reshapes the digital landscape, learn how to evolve your SEO and marketing strategies to stay ahead of the curve and maintain your competitive edge.
Read moreRevitalizing Legacy Code: Five Steps to Successful Refactoring
Master the art of legacy code refactoring with a practical five-step approach that helps you modernize your codebase while maintaining stability and reliability.
Read moreThree Aspects of Product Management You Need to Master
Product managers need to be proficient in three key areas: technical skills, data analysis, and empathy for customers. Neglecting any one of these areas can lead to difficulties in successfully managing a product. However, a well-rounded product manager who excels in all three areas can drive success by delivering innovative products that meet customer needs, are technically sound, and supported by data-driven decision-making.
Read moreSyncing Work and Personal Calendars
Discover practical solutions for maintaining a balanced schedule by effectively syncing your work and personal calendars.
Read moreCode Smells: Identifying and Fixing Common Programming Issues
Discover how to recognize and fix common code smells, making your code more maintainable, efficient, and easier to understand.
Read moreLive versus Recorded Demos
Explore the advantages and challenges of both live and recorded product demos, and learn when to use each approach effectively.
Read moreMailChimp Christmas Gift (Minion Handbook)
MailChimp knocked it out of the park with stunning Christmas gift.
Read moreCreating The Arizona We Want
The future we want has to be created by us. Creating the Arizona we want.
Read moreProductivity Wednesday #7 : Use Email to Connect with Potential Followers
Looking to build your connectivity on Linked In? Increase your followers on Twitter or Friends on Facebook? Chances are you already communicate with a lot of people via e-mail, but you haven't taken the time to connect with them elsewhere.
Read moreProductivity Wednesday #6 : Share Digital Content on Social Media with Buffer
If you read a lot of digital content, you should share a lot. The problem is that you probably read in spurts. If you shared in spurts, you would probably annoy your friends. Buffer helps fix that problem.
Read moreShirky's Sharing Model : Personal, Communal, Public and Civic
Clay Shirky enlightens us in Cognitive Surplus that, the organization of sharing has many forms and that those forms have varying output values. He gives us a way we can identify four essential points on the spectrum
Read moreProductivity Wednesday #5 : Boomerang for GMail
Sometimes when Getting Things Done, you need a little more power in your inbox than the default. Boomerang for GMail is the extra horsepower you need.
Read more5 Ways to Tell if Your DevOps Relationship is Failing You
Going to cross-functional teams for product delivery is always interesting, but DevOps seems to be particularly loaded in it's meaning. How to tell if your DevOps relationship is failing you?
Read moreOrganizing for Collaboration and Innovation through Policy, Innovation by Design
Talking to science educators about collaboration. How can we better organize and enact polity that leads to greater innovation.
Read more15 Things You Should Teach Your Kids To Prepare Them For the Future
Be the best parent you can. Prepare your children for the future.
Read moreRuby Revolution Rebuttal
In a blog post, Mark Turner has responded to the claim that Ruby is just a bunch of tools by stating that it is actually about making developers happy. I believe that the Ruby community is too focused on creating tools and lacks creativity and true innovation. Regional Ruby events have become more about showcasing tools and less about sharing cutting-edge ideas.
Read moreRuby is Just a Bunch of Tools
I have always liked Unix because of it's mentality that lots of small tools chained together could be more than an opaque larger tool. In this instance. I mean Rubyists are a bunch of Tools not of the useful kind. Maybe Zed is right an Rails is a Ghetto.
Read moreThe Effects of Shifting or Resetting on Society
If you are listening. A lot of people are talking about a "new norm", a "reset" or a "shift". Largely this discussion is around economics and growing concerns of debt. In reality it is about a lot more than that.
Read moreIt's About People. Companies Saying Right Wage. Wrong Skill Set.
Why do we keep doing 1950 economic development? Capital first, then innovation and then people. Yet, companies wanting to be here say that it's lack of skilled people that keeps them out. What are we doing to invest in people? Keep and attract the best and brightest?
Read moreDesert Code Camp 2011.1
Desert Code Camp has opened it's call for suggestions. This is a great FREE event that brings together technologists of all kinds together at a single location to learn (while feeding them breakfast and lunch) new technologies, improve on existing technology or share your favorite technology. There has been a good dynamic languages track in addition to a strong Microsoft track. There has been a track for kids (Gangplank Jr) and even sessions on sales or running a business.
Read moreMicrosoft Kinect Exceeding Expectations. Adopted More Quickly Than iPad.
I see a lot of new technology. Not very often am I impressed. Microsoft has a winner on their hands with Kinect. I completely ignored it at launch. Gangplank even had Kinect setup at the Chandler Block Party with tons of kids playing it. It looked stupid to me. The Wii had already won my heart.
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