Celebrate Success
Today Grant reminds us to not only think about the things we can do better, but remember the good things that we accomplish.
2019-09-28
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Career Growth
Working in Smaller Teams
Steve likes working in smaller teams and has some thoughts on why this is important to him.
2019-09-23
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Soft Skills: Controlling your career
Technical skills come and go while soft skills will serve you throughout your life. They will have the greatest influence over your career, job and role. For some people soft skills come naturally. As an Aspergers person (Aspie) I have to practice my soft skills at every opportunity. Pure techies need not lose hope. Soft […]
2021-04-23 (first published: 2019-09-19)
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What You Should Know About Coding
Today Steve thinks about the skills and approach we ought to be taught before we start building software as a career.
2019-09-17
363 reads
The Crazy Times of Year
Do you have busy times of the year that recur regularly? In some positions I've held, we had certain events or processes that always caused additional stress and headaches for employees. As a bartender, certain holidays (New Years, Halloween) were extra crazy. In one company, every quarter was an adventure involving a late, or a […]
2019-09-16
150 reads
Staying Focused
Finding the zone, working in the flow, these are the most efficient times for us, but they can be hard to find.
2019-09-13
233 reads
Growing and Changing
It can be hard to let go of old knowledge and try something new, but we need to find a balance.
2019-08-26
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2019-08-20
421 reads
Organized Learning
Learning to become a DBA is often a winding and twisty road. Steve has a little advice today.
2019-08-13
241 reads
Measuring the Right Things
In this weeks Simple Talk editorial Kathi Kellenberger discusses how to measure the performance of a development team and why you should always make sure you are measuring the right thing, not just the easy thing.
2019-08-12
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