A 2020 Look at Software Developers
The results of a survey on software developers has some interesting insights.
2020-07-01
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Career Growth
Evaluating Life at Work
It can be hard to evaluate your career and job situation, but Steve has some ideas today.
2020-06-19
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Are You a Gatekeeper?
One of the problems that I've seen in many parts of life is the belief that things must proceed a certain way. I caught an article on ways teachers have made school less fun for kids because they adhered to some rule or belief too tightly. I think many of those stories are true because […]
2020-06-12
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Sabotage at Work
Some of the work habits that might sabotage an organization appear to have been adopted by some of Steve's former employers.
2020-06-01
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The Challenges of Working Under Quarantine
It's been nearly two months since the Redgate Software offices closed. I am not normally in the office, but I did cancel a trip that I normally would have taken to touch base with a number of teams. That's a minor change for me, but a still a change. It's much less than the disruption that […]
2020-05-28
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Enriching Your Life
As I was looking to build career goals for the new year, I think mostly about technical topics. That makes sense, given my focus and job, but I ran across an interesting thread on Hacker News that asked about skills to work on in 2020, and not necessarily technical ones. I did find it interesting […]
2020-05-26
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The Life List
Today Steve notes that having a list of things to do before you die can be a driving force for you.
2020-05-22
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Investing in Speed
Much of what we do to improve ourselves is an investment in our work. The same thing could be said about businesses. Today a little advice about making an investment.
2020-05-20
120 reads
Taking Quarantine Holiday
What will you do about vacation during the pandemic? Steve gives his thoughts.
2020-05-15
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2020-05-11
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Blogs
Azure Platform Series “You have exceeded the maximum amount of scale changes within the past hour”
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This blog post relates to where you might be doing scale operations of your...
Bash: “command not found” in IF statement
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The First Data Saturday is Tomorrow
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Data Saturday #2 – Guatemala is tomorrow. This is the first event on the...
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