Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about JavaScript and why I thought it was doomed; I also wrote a blog post about responsive design and why I thought it was a waste of time. To be fair, I didn’t completely [ read more...]
Many developers know how to get started with a new technology, but getting started with a fitness plan can be intimidating. Worse yet, you can get bad advice and waste your time. In this episode of Get Up and CODE, Iris and [ read more...]
There are many things we do that require a large amount of setup before we can actually produce something. For example, these YouTube videos require quite a bit of setup to record. Often, we can increase our productivity in these cases, by [ read more...]
Fitting for this holiday, in this episode Iris and I talk about what you should do when you screw up. I actually came up with the idea for this episode based on my own mini-screw-up in the last few weeks as I've [ read more...]
Here is my YouTube video for this week. This time I am talking about why you need to learn to stick with things if you want to be successful. Too many software developers, and people in general, don't have the true grit [ read more...]
There is a useful observation about the world that is often applied to software development called the Pareto principle or Pareto's law. This principle suggests that in many situations 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. For example, Pareto [ read more...]