I honestly think one of the best possible things you can do for your software development career is to start a blog—and regularly update it. I have to admit I’m a little bit biased. After all, you probably wouldn’t be reading this [ read more...]
A little bit before Father’s Day this year, I mentioned to my wife that I’d found an interesting, fun way to help my three daughters learn more about what consumes pretty much all of my waking moments: Programming. Here’s what I found: [ read more...]
I Suck At Programming… HELP ME! I often receive lots of email from people telling me that they are having a hard time trying to understand programming. They have started to study, they've started to practice but they can make the “click” [ read more...]
Configuring a great App Store page is usually one of the last stages in the app development life cycle. Because it comes at the end, it is sometimes overlooked, or the information is added in a slapdash sort of way, without much [ read more...]
Software development conferences provide many opportunities to advance your career — and to build the rare programmer soft skill of public speaking. Attending conferences can be a great networking opportunity, as we discussed in the chapter on networking, but they are also [ read more...]
As software developers, we use our minds every day. Our talent for logical thinking is relevant to many different aspects of our lives, so we do what we must to keep our minds sharp and healthy. This might be eating healthy, exercising, [ read more...]