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…
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Learning Kotlin more effectively
In the previous article, I gave an overview of the declarative (remembering facts) and procedural (drilled) memory. In this article…
How developers remember things
Overview I recently listened to an interesting podcast on learning Python where Barbara Oakley was a guest. It answered some…
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…
Mental Models
I just finished reading an excellent article on mental models here. There are so many models that we could look…
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…
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…
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Setting up a productive development day
Setting up your day to be productive is the sort of thing that should be straightforward, but isn’t always. I…
Using IntelliJ Sequence Diagram Plugin productively
A useful combo for using the IntelliJ Sequence Diagram plugin to generate sequence diagrams and then handing off to an…
Keeping metadata out of your IntelliJ projects
This annoyed me enough that I wanted to write an article about it. Mostly it’s because I wanted to help…