One of my fellow guest bloggers on OutlierDeveloper.com, Andrea Angela, has a great article explaining the importance of Active Learning over Passive Learning. I would like to take you through a worked example of how you could apply this principle to achieve much better results. Let’s suppose you are interested in learning Angular JS but…
Always scrutinize yourself. Even if the project went really well, ask “What could I have done differently? What would I do differently I was to do it again now?”. “This system of self-analysis, self education, continued year after year, did more for me than any other one thing I have ever attempted ” – How…
I don’t want this post to sound like an advert for playing poker, especially high stakes poker, but I have found that many of the disciplines learned by playing poker to win can set you apart as a professional programmer. I would like to teach you those disciplines here. In 2003, Chris Moneymaker, a completely…
As part of my research into Work Life Balance I have been reading John Sonmez’s book Soft Skills, which is an excellent book overall. John is a big fan of the Pomodoro Technique for maximizing productivity and does 50-55 pomodori per week. While I can see that there are several advantages to using the technique,…
Work super hard…if you look at the maths, if someone is working 50 hours a week then you’ll get twice as much done over the course of a year by working 100 hours per week – Elon Musk The other week was pretty tough. I wasn’t sleeping as well as I normally do. By Thursday…
“That was even worse than the last take! I look terrible! I’m even balder than I thought! I sound like a robot! A drunk slurry robot! There must be a presenting talent gene that I don’t have. I can’t bare to watch myself back any more. There’s no way I’m going to let anyone else…
Just like a good Sommelier can recommend a good wine to complement a good meal, there are many books that pair very well with online courses. Here are some pairings that I have found work well. If you have your own recommendations, please let everyone know via the comments. I am developing this post so…
I write this on the evening of 28th December 2014. I have recently blogged about my goals for next year and which of those I am aiming to achieve before the end of this year. I have currently achieved none of them. There is still some time to go, but it is clear that I…
“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…
It was good, but a little strange, to be back with everyone at Just Retirement again. There were a number of people I was very pleased to see again, and I couple of people I was sorry to see not there and hope I can find a way to meet up again with. It was…
Zombie Code Kill 