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Envy, Faith, and This Developer's Life

I listen to podcasts every morning during my drive to work (no more radio for me) and a particular one that's been a favorite of mine is This Developer's Life [http://thisdeveloperslife.com/]. This morning, I got into my car, loaded up the episode, and starting driving. Unlike the many

Why You Should Be Giving Technical Presentations

I've mentioned on a few occasions [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/you-are-not-your-users] that one of the things I do at my day job is present a series of "lunch-and-learn" presentations. I do the research for these sessions, write up a script, and finally conduct the actual demonstration itself, usually in a

The Two-Step "Do I Need To Fix This Right Now?" Questionnaire

Almost every day one of my teammates will come to me with a "bug" or problem they discovered and want to know if we should fix it as part of the next deployment, or wait for the QA department (whom we jokingly refer to as the bug hunting team [http:

Software Development != Software Engineering. Do we want it to?

Footsteps echo through the empty hallway as you stride, coffee in hand, toward your study. You cross the threshold, briefly pausing to flick on the overhead lights, and the laptop on the center table stares back at you, the schematics gleaming on its too-bright screen. Setting the cup down, you

Turn It Off and See If Anybody Complains

In my Internal Web Tools group at my day job, we regularly deal with end users who are rather, shall we say, insistent that they need a particular feature on an app we are building for them. When we ask them why they need that feature, their responses generally includes

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