If you are contemplating starting a side project, there are some things you need to keep in mind in order to keep your day job from interfering with, or even damaging your side project. You also need ...

There are a ton of programming books out there, but there are only a few that have made a huge and lasting impression on developers across the board. One of those is The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman ...

Taking responsibility is taking action in your life that moves you toward happiness and success. It is about owning the consequences of what you do. When taking responsibility in your life you allow ...

As software companies mature, many of the employees (including developers, testers, project managers, and designers) find themselves further and further removed from the daily lives of those who use ...

Test code is code! Just like with real code certain patterns emerge when writing automated tests for your code. The patterns or observations about the best way to write tests help us to design our automated ...

Throughout your career as a developer you are likely to work at some well established companies as well as some just getting started. You may even start your own company at some point. Working as or ...

Regardless of who you are, technical debt represents an issue that you need to understand in order to be effective. In this episode, we're going to discuss some other ways to understand the problem that ...

We've had conversations about emotional intelligence, goal setting, journaling, and many other topics. Each one a part of helping you to better understand yourself. Increasing your self awareness will ...

When most of us finish a project, we don't really think much about it unless a problem comes up. However, once you've rolled an application out to production, there are certain things that you can expect ...

Everyone likes to feel involved. Even the shyest introverts need a community, something to connect them with others like them. As developers we can often feel isolated in our own worlds of study or focus ...

It can be challenging to make the leap from a job that is just ok to one that really makes you happy. In this episode, we're going to talk about some of the things you should be doing if you anticipate ...

We made it to Episode 200! Almost four years into podcasting and it feels like we're just getting our feet under us. There's so much we've learned the past 200 episodes from audio engineering to coding ...

A lot of times we allow fear of social situations to control us. Be it public speaking, going to an event where you don't know anyone, or just going out after work we all have some places where we are ...

Sometime soon, you'll be ready to move on to the next phase of your career. While for many jobs, this can entail going to another company, it doesn't always have to be that way. In fact, if you like ...

Most organizations really dislike having their private, business-critical information shared with everyone else, especially when those people are potential clients, competitors, or the general public. ...

If you are a developer using a compiled programming language, your craft depends on your compiler. Computers are not capable of natively understanding any of your code. Instead, the machine must be told ...

We've all had times where we were on top of our game. It was like we could sense what others were feeling and thinking and had the right responses to every situation. Other times we weren't so in tune ...

The longer your career goes, the more likely it is that you'll get overloaded with work. Whether it's because your company is understaffed, your manager assigns you too much stuff to do, or because schedules ...

We've brought on Jerome Hardaway, founder of Vets Who Code and Jacob Oakley, a successful graduate of the program, to talk to us about how they are helping the men and women who served in the US Military. Read ...

There is a surprising amount of writing required to be a successful developer. Whether you have to write technical specifications, document an existing system, or even write tutorials for open source ...

You make one little change on your LinkedIn profile and get flooded with recruiter emails. We've all been there. When you're looking for a job this is great but it can get annoying fast. Even worse is ...

It's pretty common in technology-related professions to be shy. Lots of people that get into this profession do so under the mistaken impression that they won't have to deal with people as frequently. ...