Whenever the economy takes a downturn it’s always smart to take stock of what makes you more valuable to either your employer or your customers. That can mean everything from expanding your skill set to offering a new service. Sometimes that means making sacrifices now for gains later. Take a continuing education class. Get that [...]
Are you a touch typist or do you hunt and peck? For a developer, touch typing can really help keep from having to move your eyes back and forth from the monitor to the keyboard. Although I’m sure there are plenty of programmers who get along just fine without touch typing, I refuse to believe it’s [...]
Nostalgia is defined as a longing for the past. Many things give me a feeling of nostalgia: old pictures, 80’s music, Robert Aspirin books. The list goes on. It’s just not my development environment, and it better not be for you either. As developers we should be moving forward with not just with our technologies, but [...]