A reader of Mastering Software Technique emailed me to ask:
You mentioned it’s important to find a source of feedback while learning. I am just starting out with programming, so any suggestions on where to get such feedback would be great.
It’s a great question! Here’s what I told him, plus a little...
Rebuilding Rails, like a lot of products, has multiple levels (“tiers.”) At the lowest level is the ebook and the first two video chapters. The next level, the Framework Engineer package, is the ebook and a six-chapter video workshop on building an MVC framework. And the Full package is the ebook...
You’ll often hear folks claim that it’s well-researched that some developers are ten times (or twenty-seven times! Or more!) as productive as the median developer. They often refer these gifted folks as “10x developers.”
The “well-researched” part is garbage. Completely wrong. There are some studies...
The other day Gábor Szabó asked an insightful question on Twitter. Here’s his actual phrasing:
I keep hearing about a huge shortage of tech people and I keep seeing recruiters hunting lots of people yet, I also see many people who have a hard time finding a job. Why is that?
— Gábor Szabó (@szabgab...
I’m sure you’ve seen many articles asking, “is Rails dead?” and “is Ruby dead?”… Indeed, you’ll see them for any technology old enough to have a real userbase, even technologies that are still growing.
I’m not here today to answer whether Ruby or Rails is dead. Instead, I’m here to explain why people...
In March, I wrote about the UK’s Global Talent Visa and how, as a coder, it probably meant you could get long-term residence in the UK even working for yourself.
Recently Geoffrey Robichaux asked me great questions about it. He even agreed I could post them here! I’ll share his questions and my answers...
I’ve been asking a lot of coders about how they got where they got. I have a personal interest in that long slump in the ‘senior engineer’ section of our career, but there are all sorts of fascinating stories along the way.
Andy Neely is on my...
You know the Golden Child Engineer, the favourite of the Director of Engineering? He’s that guy (and it’s basically always a guy) who’s the company Teacher’s Pet? The software developer who gets promotion after promotion?
You’re not that guy. With one fun exception, I haven’t been either. And I’ve...
Her nose wrinkled. “I really hate job hunting.” He looked down, but her chicken curry seemed fine.
“How come?”
“The interviewer is trying to seem smarter than you. The questions are stupid and you’ve already heard them or you haven’t. It’s not like those are really things you do on the job.”
“Huh...
