The Daily Standup is a Waste of Time
It’s the same daily standup you’ve been attending for years. You show up at the same time. Enjoy some small talk with your …
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If management isn’t a promotion, then engineering isn’t a demotion
I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful …
Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions?
A couple years back I gave a talk on researching software history, using “linked list interview questions” as an example topic. Since referring people to …
Goodbye: MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA Certifications are Retiring
In the continuation of the move towards all role-based certifications, Microsoft has announced that they are officially retiring all of the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA …
Pluralsight is free for the whole of April
Last year, we made Pluralsight Skills free for the month of April to give technologists and teams a way to stay productive and …
Re:factor – a free software development conference for charity
Re:factor is a digital conference experience to raise money for charity, organized by Axxes (my employer), Euricom & Painting With Light. Re:factor is …
Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews
Imagine that you’re a principal at a small K-8 school who’s looking to hire a new teacher. As you have less than 20 …
Tech interview best practice that fails in life
Tech interviews have a magic answer: The hashmap. “Great solution, how would you optimize it?” Hashmap! You get the job and start to …
What I wish I had known about single page applications
As a Java developer, I have spent most of my professional life working on the parts of software systems that most people don’t …