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Finding Inspiration for Conference Talks and Blog Posts

What have you learned or changed recently? If your answer is "nothing," is that a problem? If you don't engage with the community to get ideas—why not?

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Finding a Win-Win in Difficult Situations

I've learned that finding a win-win takes stepping outside of the situation, having empathy for the other party, and some creative problem solving.

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On Becoming a Wizard: Strategies for Keeping Up as a New Developer

Eventually, I realized that the problem wasn’t my failure to remember library names. What made the difference in my understanding was how I asked questions.

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Finding Your Path to a Second Career in Software Development

Going back to college to get a degree isn't the only—or the easiest—way to start a second career. I see three main routes into software development.

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Two Resources for Introducing Young Developers to Testing and Quality

Resources to introduce developers to testing concepts and quality attributes that they should be thinking about in their work.

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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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