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The Mental Stages of Programming

The Sudden Realization stage can be minimized by spending the time to define your problem and research the tools you will be using.

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Three Tips for a Positive, Effective Team from Casey Watts

Having positive, active teammates leads to a more effective team. Here are a few of the tips I took away from this talk.

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My 2017 Developer Resolutions

In the spirit of making overly ambitious resolutions, here are the software development topics I intend to explore in 2017.

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Expand your Horizons: Change How you Think about Conferences

Don't take conferences for granted. They can give you breadth, push you to grow, and connect you to great people — if you go about them properly.

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Book Review – Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

If you care about influencing change to one degree or another, reading "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change" makes a lot of sense.

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Tips for Making Persuasive Arguments

Forming persuasive arguments is important but not easy. The 7 Triggers to Yes is a new favorite book of mine, and it directly addresses this topic.

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Screen Sharing is Worth a Thousand Words

Without screen sharing, I might have wasted hours of our client's time and created frustration going after technical problems that didn’t exist.

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To Koans or Not to Koans?

As a kinesthetic learner, koans have been an excellent resource for me to get acquainted with a number of programming languages in a short amount of time.

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Three Benefits of Speaking at a Conference

Attending conferences is a good way to learn expand your network, and if you go to one as a speaker, there are a few more benefits.

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A Fresh Perspective on Front-End at Midwest JS

Top three takeaways from Midwest JS: functional programming abounds; Angular 2? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯; and my pleasant reaction to react.

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Rejuvenating My Developer Identity at AndConf

I expected to learn and meet people doing cool things with tech. I didn’t expect to reconnect my "software developer" identity with my sense of self.

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Coding For Fun – How to Avoid Creating a Second Job

I've found an approach that lets me code for fun outside work. As a result, I program in my free time, and I feel really happy when I do it.

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