Meeting prep with Freeplane and OmniFocus
TLDR; After having to switch to Freeplane after a Mac font upgrade I discovered a useful feature where you can ‘deep link’ to a specific node. This is a great…
Get ahead in your development career using soft skill hacks
TLDR; After having to switch to Freeplane after a Mac font upgrade I discovered a useful feature where you can ‘deep link’ to a specific node. This is a great…
My first cut at the AWS Exam. Putting the links together with images to get me started on the connections I need. Let’s see how this goes.
TLDR; Finding your weaknesses as a software developer career involves leveraging our analytical tendencies. It’s one thing to think about the content we want to learn. It’s quite another to…
OVERVIEW Tldr; I passed my AWS Developer associate exam, but in the actual day job, that knowledge wasn’t cutting it. I felt I was getting ‘left behind’ in conversations. And…
TLDR; tips below on some of the unexpected parts of software development, and I have a book out. Free sample of that here. As I have improved in my career,…
In the previous article, I gave an overview of the declarative (remembering facts) and procedural (drilled) memory. In this article I’d like to apply some of that knowledge. This is…
Overview I recently listened to an interesting podcast on learning Python where Barbara Oakley was a guest. It answered some questions for me about how developers can remember things. By…
Overview I signed up to a webinar by TodoIst as the subject of ‘Eating the Frog’ interested me. As a GTD zealot, I was keen on learning more about other…
I just finished reading an excellent article on mental models here. There are so many models that we could look into, but the article here gives 4 as a taster.…
Some handy hints from a book review In the bid to get through more books per year, I’ve followed the approach of seen cited in various podcasts, to read 20…
Here be affiliate links – but also here be sales prices! I’m not going to try and hard-sell anything, because I have mentioned the benefits of training materials elsewhere on…
I’ll keep it brief. Normally any affiliate links seem to be for up to 50%, this one seems to work for that and more. You should be able to get…
I recently answered a question that interested me on Quora, “What is the number one reason most developers never finish a personal project?” If you’re struggling to finish a development…