I saw a very popular tweet that did a Twitter poll in a different way saying “Fav for x, RT for y” I wondered if this type of tactic leads to increased popularity or disaster? Will follower leave in droves, or would it get enough RTs to result in more followers? Who knows? So I decided…
I was honored when Dave Rael invited me onto his Developer On Fire show. This show has interviewed so many of the world’s most amazing developers: Robert Martin, Scott Allen, Chad Fowler, Scott Hanselman just to mention a few of the recent examples, it’s a real privilege for me to have my name appearing anywhere on…
Erik is a software architect, team leader and technologist. An active blogger with extensive experience teaching and demonstrating software development techniques, Erik’s has been recently focusing on the .NET framework, though over the years he has worked with C++, Java, and a number of other languages. His projects range from low level driver and kernel…
I’ve started copying some of my blog posts over to Medium. A lot of other WordPress users are considering doing the same, so I’m writing this to explain the differences as I see them. This month I’ve switched from an iPhone to an Android phone. In some ways it’s better and in other ways it’s…
In The Road From Nobody series I explained the benefits of using Twitter. But I didn’t say much on how to write great tweets. This is something that I’m still learning from others. I don’t usually retweet others tweets, for a few reasons: It’s sending extra information to your followers that they might not care…
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us” – Pressfield If you’ve read Why Moving To A New Job Improves Your Skills, you will probably have picked up on the “what do I do next?” feeling. This is something that I have been thinking over and I’d…
Outlier Developer is a new site created by Cory House for developers aspiring to do more with their careers. There is also a new course called “Becoming an Outlier: Reprogramming the developer mind”, which at the time of writing, is the 2nd most popular course on Pluralsight. My latest post The Road From Nobody To Half…
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