I like watching developer talks, live and recorded. For my money (or free, depending on the venue), it doesn’t get any better than listening to Bob Martin work his way into a talk on software design by talking first about astronomy. He and so many other speakers are engaging, charismatic, and informative. So we strive to…
It’s Monday again, which means another Reader Question Monday. This week, rather than renew my assault on all things sacred to software developers, why don’t I mount an assault on the design profession? I’m kidding about the assault part. Probably. But today’s question comes from a designer. I consider this cool because we knowledge workers…
Happy Friday, DaedTech readers! Time for yet another installment of the DaedTech Digest. I didn’t do one last week because of the US holiday. For those of you not from the US, there’s this holiday called Black Friday that everybody celebrates by getting together and eating turkey the day before and then subsequently bludgeoning one…
I’m going to take a break from my aggressive war on status quo wage programming jobs today. Instead, I’ll offer something a little more how-to-y and a little more upbeat. And I won’t once try to talk you out of salaried employment. Instead, I’ll try to talk you into it. Or, at least into a…
After a couple of weeks doing Reader Question Monday on a Tuesday, I’m back on track. I’ll briefly congratulate myself before moving on to the potentially pot-stirring topic of programming skills. Today’s question is one I’ve gotten a LOT, but have struggled to answer. I didn’t want to write on the subject until I had…
