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…
AWS DevOps Certification Exam Mindmap
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.
Finding your weaknesses as a software developer
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…
DynamoDB Deep Dive from Whizlabs – a review
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…
How to succeed in your first software development job
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,…
Learning Kotlin more effectively
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…
How developers remember things
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…
Notes from Eat that Frog Webinar
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…
Mental Models
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.…
Book review – Double Your Learning Power, Geoffrey A. Dudley (1986).
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…
Whizlabs Black Friday Sale
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…
Flash Sale on Whizlab Subscriptions
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…
Why you’re struggling to finish a development project
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…