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Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
This podcast is for aspiring entrepreneurs and technologists as well as those that want to become a designer and implementors of great software solutions. That includes solving problems through technology. We look at the whole skill set that makes a great developer. This includes tech skills, business and entrepreneurial skills, and life-hacking, so you have the time to get the job done while still enjoying life.
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- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Stories Instead of Buzzwords - Showing What You Know
There are numerous guides and articles on how to interview. They all provide some great suggestions. However, I rarely see an essential recommendation for…
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I Can Find That Out,Saying I Do Not Know Yet
We are asked questions every day. Also, part of the expectation of our job is that we will have an answer. However, we do not have to answer immediately. It is…
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Accepting or Rejecting Job Offers
Part of advancing our career includes accepting or rejecting job offers. It may come as a surprise to you that we do have a choice. We might even reject an…
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One Offs, Side Projects, and Veering From Standards
Rules are meant to be broken, and sometimes there is a reason for veering from standards. We often do this to build a one-off or maybe a proof-of-concept…
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When To Search For a New Job
Sooner or later, most of us have a desire to search for a new job. This situation can arise from negative things like personal conflicts and lack of challenge…
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Marketing or Narcissism - How Much Is Too Much
When we build a personal brand, there is a certain amount of "bragging" we need to do. This form of marketing can be seen as pure narcissism at times. While…
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Addressing Old and Rusty Skills In An Interview
Technology moves fast and is not likely to slow down. Therefore, cutting-edge knowledge we have today can quickly lose its value. Nevertheless, just as a car…
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Research and Preparation For An Interview
We spend a lot of time doing the work that makes us a better developer. Nevertheless, there is still some work we need to do as part of selling those skills…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Non-Professional Work On Your Resume - It Is Valid Experience
We often overlook the non-professional work we do in our life. It is easy to throw work experience on our resume when we got paid. However, what about…
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Listing Education On Your Resume and Personal Branding
We have looked at our professional experience and addressing it on a resume or personal branding site. In this episode, we look at the other major area of our…
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Conferences As Professional Experience - A Full Resume
There countless things we do during our careers that are easy to forget yet make us better. In this episode, we look at counting conferences as professional…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Your Personal Portfolio - Work and References On Your Branding Site
We talked about a personal brand website. In this episode, we focus on the personal portfolio. This content is work examples, deliverables, and possibly even…
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Your Personal Branding Website - Advertise Yourself On The Web
All of us should have a personal branding website of some sort. This goal can be achieved through a blog site, a web site that displays our portfolio, or a…
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Work Examples, Portfolios, And Showing Off Your Deliverables
A frustrating part of my education was a need to show my work. I always wanted to get to the answer, and showing work slowed me down. However, work examples…
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Expired Certifications And Stale Resume Items
Our continued drive to become a better developer will eventually lead to certifications. Therefore, it will lead to those certifications expiring. While some…
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The Focused Resume - Curating Your Experience
We have looked at a focused form of a resume with the mini-resume. However, we tend to have a lot of excess in our resume as our career goes on. This excess…
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A Mini Resume - Experience Summaries
We have looked at resumes small and large during this season. However, it is worth our time to examine a mini resume. This format gets to the point and is a…
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Using Your Side Hustle Experience On Your Resume
One of the best ways to build experience and grow your skillset is through a side hustle. There is nothing wrong with using that side hustle experience in your…
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Resume Extras - Including Bells and Whistles
We have looked at resumes that are too large or too small. Now we discuss what makes one "just right." In this episode, our focus is on resume extras or bells…
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Large Resume Challenges - When Experience Becomes Too Much
This episode delves into a problem that may seem a non-issue. We look at what to do with a large resume. The thin resume challenge may seem like a significant…
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The Short Resume - Getting a Job With Minimal Experience
We all have started our professional life with that most challenging obstacle in front of us, experience. I think all of us have experienced the challenge of…
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Career Improvement - From Better Developer To Better Career
We kick off the new season on career improvement with an episode to set the table. We take a look at what we will cover and how our attitude can drive success…
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Milestones An Excellent Tool For Marking and Driving Progress
As we reach a milestone episode number (350), it is a good time for us to look closer at milestones. These project management tools may appear to be tags or…
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Schedule Adjustments - When To Change Course
We spend a lot of time talking about planning and setting schedules. This activity is a necessary process. However, we should learn from our past and adapt our…
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Best Practice Mistakes - Process Drift
We all make mistakes. Even our best intentions can lead to errors. Thus, we can make best practice mistakes. While this may seem like an impossible situation…
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Best Practice Urban Legends - Not Quite the Best
Urban legends cover a broad range of topics and often have a feel of being correct, even when they are not. This phenomenon is not restricted to saying "Beetle…
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The Cost of The Right Decision - Is It Worth It?
Software developers and designers are often asked for a recommendation to approach a solution. The implication is that we know the right decision. We often…
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Software Architecture Deliverables - Provide The Story
It is time to end another season. At this point, we need to revisit the idea of software architecture deliverables. In particular, we should spend some time…
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Software Architecture Best Practices - Essential Ideas
It is time to wrap up the season of software architecture from scratch. We have covered a broad range of topics and now are able to look over them as a whole…
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Middle Tier Architecture - Designing The Business Rules
We have looked at a broad range of topics this season. However, it is time for us to tackle the middle tier architecture. Thus, we need to consider process…
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Architectural Documentation - Communicate Your Decisions
At some point in your project, architectural documentation becomes an essential piece of the deliverables. This material is often a set of diagrams and bullet…
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Cohesion or Coupling - Essential Architecture Decisions
A critical design decision in the object-oriented world is whether to choose cohesion or coupling. These two approaches are not mutually exclusive. However, it…
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Class Architecture And General Grouping of Features
Object names and namespaces are just the beginning of creating a class architecture. We need to consider globally available values, data hiding, abstraction…
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Session Management - Architecting State Data
Most modern business applications have some state or context. This model can be easy to implement in a stand-alone application. However, multi-user…
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Application Programming Interface (API) Solutions Architected
One of the most substantial challenges in system development is the application programming interface. The result is (ideally) a stable and well-defined…
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Integrations, Imports, Exports and Similar Architectural Considerations
When we talk about creating an architecture for the future, integrations should always be a part of the discussion. These include importing, exporting, and…
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Architecting System Logs and Logging - Finding Proper Balance
System logs and logging is one of the least sexy things in software development. Nevertheless, they are highly valuable. The ultimate challenge in a logging…
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Messages and Notifications - Your Communication Architecture
While the GUI is used for most of our user interaction, there are other methods to consider as well. The areas of focus in this episode will be messages and…
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Security And Authentication - Critical Architecture Concerns
Hackers are everywhere. Thus, security and authentication are essential pieces of software architecture. There are so many common features of application…
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Scaling Up or Out Architectural Decisions
Systems and solutions will grow if they are successful. Therefore, it is essential for us to consider whether this will be handled by scaling up or scaling…
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Administrative Tools And Architecting Your Solution
Nearly every solution includes some manner of administrative tools. These tools range from scripts and manual process steps to full graphical interfaces and…
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Core Component Architecture - Build a Strong Foundation
No matter what we build, there is always a foundation of some sort. In software, the core component architecture provides us that foundation. These are the…
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Architecting For a Sometimes Connected Application
The modern world is full of options to connect your app to the Internet. Nevertheless, there are cases where you will have a sometimes connected application…
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Architecting The User Experience
Architecture design can start at the back-end or the front-end. In either case, you will end up architecting the user experience at some point. The…
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Architecting Large File Storage - Software From Scratch
One of the architectural challenges that are often overlooked is large file storage. These may be documents, images, or other general binary structures. This…
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Selecting Languages, Frameworks, and Libraries - Architecture From Scratch
One of the rarest of decisions we are allowed to make is when it comes to selecting languages and frameworks or maybe even libraries for our project. These…
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Architecting The Database
In no particular order, we will look at architecting the database as we continue our tour of software architecture from scratch. There are several key…
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Frontend or Backend Where To Start? - Software Architectural Decisions
Every journey starts somewhere. When we architect a solution, we need to decide whether to start at the frontend or the backend. There are pros and cons to…
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Software Architecture - Agile vs Waterfall
The decision of Agile vs Waterfall in software development is not often linked to architecture. However, there is a difference in your approach that depends on…
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Software Architecture From Scratch - Season Kick-Off
We kick off the season on software architecture from scratch with an overview of what we will cover. We also set the table for the assumptions we will make as…
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Looking Forward and Planning for the Year Ahead
As we near the end of a decade, it is time to consider planning for the year ahead. We need to consider the goals we want to achieve and how much better to be…
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Year-End Success - Finish Strong
We once again look at finishing strong. Our steady efforts and incremental progress should result in year-end success. However, there always seems to be a need…
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Looking Back - How Did We Do With Our Prognostications?
As we start into our last week of the year, it is a good time for looking back. Therefore, we think it is worthwhile to review what we proposed would be the…
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Making The Most Of Time Off and Holidays
We wrap up Thanksgiving week with some recommendations for making the most of that time off. While you may be working frantically on Black Friday, there will…
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Thankful For Friends, Family, Even Co-Workers
We continue our focus during the U.S. Thanksgiving week with a look at things to be thankful for. This episode, we look at people in our life. These can be…
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Being Thankful For Effective Tools
The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us in the United States. That allows us a week that is a little lighter than our normal workload and time to reflect. In this…
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Season of Lists Wrap-Up and Becoming a Better Developer
We have reached the end of season 10. This episode wraps up our look at how lists can be a quick way to cover a lot of ground as topics go. This season was a…
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3 Lessons We Can Learn From Lists
This season has been an homage to clickbait and lists. Nevertheless, some values come from using lists to communicate. There are some critical concepts behind…
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Three Ways To Avoid Burnout
The worst thing that can happen to your career is burnout. This situation can do lasting damage to your reputation as well as eat away at years of progress…
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Three Important Software Design Patterns To Recognize and Understand
There are a wealth of reasons for understanding and recognizing software patterns. However, these three crucial software design patterns appear in many…