Bringing the pursuit of perfection and attention to detail, the Enneagram Type 1 or The Perfectionist is a conscientious and ethical personality type. They are committed to a sense of right and wrong, ...

Being a mid-level developer is like being a middle child, or a member of generation X. Everybody forgets about you as you sit there sandwiched between the groups that everyone caters to. However, you ...

Intrinsic drive involves being able to understand and use internal rewards to push yourself. Increasing motivation takes a mindset shift that will change how you look at the world from where you get ...

We all know that the most permanent solutions come from temporary fixes. In light of this, we could all do a lot better in the way that we write "one off" or "temporary" applications. Read more › The ...

In this episode, we're going to discuss several of the common performance problems that can occur when accessing a database over the network, as well as how to fix them. Read more › The post Database ...

The Enneagram of Personality, or just the Enneagram, is a representation of personalities using a geometric figure, also called an enneagram (little e), to express nine interconnected personality types. ...

If you want to deal with the ever increasing complexity of developing cloud-native apps with modern tools, then it behooves you to use industry best practices to develop these apps. Read more › The ...

How to approach other developers when you have found something horribly wrong with their code in a way that doesn't create conflict in your team. Read more › The post Your Code Sucks appeared ...

Unexpected outages happen all the time. We've had them happen while recording the podcast several times. Having a plan of action when an unexpected power outage or internet outage occurs allows you to ...

Great friends, exceptional leaders, and champions of those who can't fight for themselves, the Enneagram Type 8 or The Challenger stands alone. They want to be independent, not indebted to anyone and ...

While there is a lot of misplaced hype about tools that will replace programmers, there are a lot of tools that can handle a lot of the mundane, boring code that many developers have to write. Low code ...

A fixed mind is rigid and inflexible, unable to accept change or anything that challenges currently held views. A growth mindset looks to learn and improve through challenges and even failures to better ...

Relationships end, some break-ups are mutual with both people seeing the relationship as over. Other times one person is done and the other is not. This leads to grief over the loss of the relationship. Read ...

In the early days of development configuring an application for deployment was a huge amount of work and was often encapsulated in installation programs that were complicated, error-prone, and could ...

Excited, energetic, and extroverted, the Enthusiast or Enneagram Type Seven is the life of the party or is the party of life. They are constantly looking for their next adventure, however if not careful ...

Like logging and many other things that you have to do in most applications, email is something that seems simple but has a lot of hidden complexity, especially as your application scales. While simple ...

Fraud, imposter, no talent hack. Imposter Syndrome makes even the most talented developer feel unworthy to even look at code. It affects all of us in different ways through out our careers. Read more ...

There's a lot of debate around what makes someone a senior developer. We talk about how long they've been slinging code, what types of projects they've worked on, and the like. However, one thing drives ...

Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome defines the Enneagram Type Six as worry is their constant state of being. Motivated by a need to be supported and secure the Loyalist will build and maintain communities ...

If your application uses a relational database, odds are good that updating the application will require changing the database structure. While tools are available for migrating databases in most frameworks, ...

The Raspberry Pi came out in 2012 and revolutionized the IT industry. The small, yet powerful, boards allow for building inexpensive IoT solutions, emulators, and even cluster computers. The latter allows ...

We've had several episodes on dates and times, oriented around how to think about the data types being used and all the fun wrinkles there. However, it doesn't end there - the intent of the user when ...

Interested in constant learning and relentlessly pursuing knowledge, the Enneagram Type 5 or the Investigator seeks to understand. They want to understand life and every part of it. Always searching ...

It's not glamorous, but most modern apps are going to require some form of an audit trail if dealing with things like finances, health information, private documents, or online sales. While practically ...

It seems to be ingrained in us from an early age that saying no to someone is rude and that you shouldn't do it. However, saying yes to every request leads to an unfulfilled life. Read more › The ...