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Working through the AWS guide

Jan 17, 2022 James

Overview As part of my “multi-pronged attack” on exam prep, I viewed the following videos from Tutorials DOJO. It’s completely free BTW, and I’m not getting any referrals or anything.…

Career Productivity

Meeting prep with Freeplane and OmniFocus

Dec 21, 2021 James

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 Career Development Learning How to Learn

AWS DevOps Certification Exam Mindmap

Oct 11, 2021 James

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.

AWS Development Learning How to Learn

Finding your weaknesses as a software developer

Sep 19, 2021 James

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…

AWS

DynamoDB Deep Dive from Whizlabs – a review

Aug 31, 2021 James

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…

Career

How to succeed in your first software development job

Jul 20, 2021 James

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 How to Learn

Learning Kotlin more effectively

Jul 11, 2021 James

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…

Learning How to Learn

How developers remember things

Jun 28, 2021 James

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…

GTD Productivity

Notes from Eat that Frog Webinar

May 2, 2021 James

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…

Career Productivity

Mental Models

Jun 29, 2020 James

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.…

Learning How to Learn

Book review – Double Your Learning Power, Geoffrey A. Dudley (1986).

Jan 10, 2020 James

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…

AWS Career Development

Whizlabs Black Friday Sale

Nov 23, 2021 James

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…

AWS

Flash Sale on Whizlab Subscriptions

Jul 19, 2021 James

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…

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