Staying Sane as a Technical Manager, Part 2
A year and a half ago I wrote about the three little words that are critical for a Technical Manager to understand. Know your limits. As I look back over the past year and a half, plus the years...
View ArticleAnalyzing Code with NDepend
Disclaimer: A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, I helped coordinate the Indy Code Camp. We gave away a few donated copies of NDepend as prizes, and while setting that up, Patrick Smacchia offered me...
View ArticleThe Developer’s Almanac
If you haven’t heard Rob Conery’s excellent new podcast This Developer’s Life then you really owe it to yourself to listen. It’s well done, and very entertaining. Either way, Rob inspired me. Inspired...
View ArticleOffice Prank
Every now and then we like to have some fun with our boss. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – he’s a fun-loving guy and we all love working together. Usually when you go on vacation for a...
View ArticleHow Talentopoly is Built
Today’s post is written by my guest and fellow Indianapolis-ite, Jared Brown. I asked Jared to guest post here because he has created an application using Ruby on Rails, Heroku, and a host of other...
View Articletalkasaur.us – dirt simple conference calling
Both at work and “for fun”, I’ve used join.me for any simple screen sharing needs. I remember the first time I used it. It was simple, and it just worked. You download a small app to share your screen,...
View ArticleGlobal Day of Coderetreat in Indianapolis
I recently came across this thing called a “coderetreat” that Corey Haines puts on. The gist is that it’s a free full-day event where a small group of dedicated-but-busy software developers can come...
View ArticleCoderetreatin’
Today, the Global Day of Coderetreat came to Indianapolis. And it was great. 13 people chose to spend the whole day on Saturday, December 3rd, in the “common area” at Interactive Intelligence honing...
View ArticleBuilding breaktheicefor.me
Sometimes I get these, well, hankerings. I get an idea for what usually is a stupid, silly thing, and I feel compelled to work on it. This past weekend I had another “episode” and the result is...
View ArticleWhy I Love You
Say what? Why do I love you? You probably read the title and thought this was going to be a mushy pre-Valentine’s Day post about how much I love you all, right? Well, it’s true that I love you – I do,...
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