The Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) approach helps you stay on track and headed toward your goals. It's a business tool, but I've had great success using it on personal projects.
The conference didn't have a specific focus, but several themes came up repeatedly, including computer science being complex, big data and its capabilities and biases, and handling
Your career can be a tool to help get you what you want from life. And each kind of development career path (startup, corporate, academic, freelance, or consultancy) will help you
We gathered our team around a whiteboard and sketched out some architectural ideas. Then, instead of splitting into pairs, we spent an entire day working together on some of the in
How do you effectively navigate the conversation when a coworker brings a problem to you? Here's an outline for helping your coworker gain clarity on their issue and take responsib
Amazon comes into the IoT game strong. You can build just about anything, but first you have to spend a lot of time sorting through pieces and searching for what you need.
The best way to help someone come up to speed in skills and methodologies is to work directly with them, side-by-side. Pair programming is the perfect chance to nudge people into g
When it comes to my choice of editor, I'm a nomad. I'm always switching around based on the needs of my current project. But I've found a few essential editor features I can't live
Maybe someday Visual Studio will include support for Azure Functions in F#, but for now it’s possible to get there by adapting the C# Azure Function template.
It's possible to extend the default Heroku 30 second timeout by sending meaningless bytes back to the client. This post shows how to do so using Node.js / Express middleware.