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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
Three Signs Of Burnout - Address These Before Its Too Late
The steady path of continuous improvement can be derailed by burnout. This situation can not only halt progress, but it can also cause us to fall backward. The…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Better Developers Do These Three Things
It only makes sense that we would provide a list of things that better developers do during this season. That is a primary focus of this site and one that is…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Three Impressive Achievements We Can All Do
All resumes are not created equal. There are impressive achievements we can list that will make us stand out from the crowd. While these are goals that take…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Interview Better With These Three Tips
One of the ways to achieve your dream job is to interview better. That allows us to impress decision-makers and win the positions we are suited for. However, a…
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Win Projects And Jobs Better With These Three Tips
Our career path will inevitably require us to try to win projects or land a job. There are simply no ways to avoid that. That means that almost every time you…
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Three Tips To Avoid Writer's Block And Find Content Topics
Writer's block is a nasty situation when you are trying to crank out regular content. This may be for a blog, a podcast, or a brown bag lunch session. In all…
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Three Tips for Faster Debugging
It is time for honesty. There is a dirty little secret we need to discuss. It might be surprising even. However, we need to talk about the bugs in our code. We…
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Build a Better To-Do List With These Three Tips
Steady progress is an essential step in becoming a better developer. One tool for achieving this is to create a good set of tasks to complete. A daily list is…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Three Key Skills For Database Developers
Relational databases are an essential piece of many modern solutions. Thus, most developers have some exposure to SQL within the first few years of their…
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Productivity Habits To Start Your Day Right
One of our often stated goals is to make progress on our goals every day. That leads us to look for ways to create daily habits that promote progress and…
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Three Everyday Applications For Developer Productivity
We live and breath technology. Thus, most of us have several everyday applications for developer productivity. While each of us has our way to work and…
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Three Technical Certifications To Advance Your Career
There are many ways to advance your career and earning potential. A degree is one path. However, technical certifications tend to be easier to earn and equally…
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Three Important AWS Services Developers Should Know
We spent an entire season going over Amazon AWS services at a high level. That shows how many options you have available in that world. However, there are some…
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Three Important Development Languages For Your Career
In this episode of three things for improving your career, we look at important development languages. This is not a look at a primary language. There are a…
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3 Habits For Every Day and a Happier Life
We take a turn away from technology in this episode to focus on life. It is hard to be a better developer when your daily life is miserable. Therefore, it is…
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Three Suggestions For Better Meetings
There are some activities that are part of any job. While not all of these are also a common concern, it does seem that one often bubbles to the top. That bad…
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3 Ways to Embrace and Improve Unit Testing
Quality Assurance is an art as well as a skill. We all can randomly break things. However, testing is not just about breaking things. It is also done with the…
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3 Quick Ways To Manage Email
It is impossible to provide modern productivity suggestions without including a way to manage email. This form of communication has done so much for us in…
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Desktop Security - Three Ways To Turn Aside Hackers
There are many areas where our three suggestions can make a quick improvement. Desktop security is one such topic. The subject of security comes up every day…
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Three IDE Options For Improved Productivity
Our tour of three things you can do to make your life easier will look at IDE options in this episode. We all have our favorite IDE within the first year or…
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Three Tips For Writing Better Code
In this episode, we look at a favorite topic. Here are three ways to write better code. We create a lot of source code during our career. Thus, this is an area…
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Three Ways To Improve Your Ability To Pass Certifications
Our season of threes continues with a look at three ways to make it more likely for you to pass certifications. These tests vary a lot in style and content…
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Season Kick-Off, Three Things You Should Know To Get Better
We jump into a new season and a new topic. This season will bounce around a bit as we tackle three things to know about a subject in each episode. Our focus…
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Vending Machines For Passive Income
One of the oldest methods of passive income is the use of vending machines. They even found some example in the ancient Egypt pyramids (no, they did not)…
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Events, Parties and Networking for Passive Income
In the world of passive income, what can be better than parties and networking as part of your efforts? I know that some of us do not find a lot of pleasure in…
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Odd Jobs For Passive Income
We have touched on a large number of potential passive income opportunities. However, there is an incredible number of lesser-known odd jobs as well. These can…
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Arts and Crafts To Passive Income
While arts and crafts are not always a path to riches, they do often have some value beyond the material they are created from. Thus, hobbies that fall into…
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Ridesharing For Passive Income - Plan Accordingly
When you think of passive income, the idea of ridesharing is not likely to occur to you. However, there are ways to make this new opportunity work for you…
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Passive Income From Overages - Make a little more, generate revenue
No matter what physical product is created, there are bits left over. Sometimes these are full, unused products. In this episode, we look at using those to…
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Subscription-Based Products - The Holy Grail of Passive Income
The best ways to generate passive income is through subscription-based products. These solutions are the gift that keeps on giving. We have a sales cycle that…
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Passive Income Best Practices - Avoid Anti-Patterns
There are passive income best practices we can follow to improve our odds for success. There are also anti-patterns we want to avoid. This area of…
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Outsource And Automate For Passive Income
We have often discussed how we can outsource and automate our processes. This approach allows us to reduce the hustle portion of our side-hustle. While that is…
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Reducing Expenses For Some Passive Income
It is hard to argue that reducing expenses is not the least exciting episode of this season. Nevertheless, this is an important part of our passive income…
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Cashback and Rewards For Passive Income
It is hard to flip through a magazine or sit through television commercials without being exposed to a cashback program. These come in many forms. Some provide…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Turn Your Hobby Into Passive Income
One of the best ways to generate a passive income stream is to profit from what you already do. We have looked at a couple of ways to do this. However, a hobby…
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Producing One-Time Content For Passive Income
We have looked at regular content like blogs and podcasts for passive income. However, there are better options for passive income that are one-time content…
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Side Hustle To Passive Income
A side hustle is an excellent way to improve your income. However, that word "hustle" implies that it is anything but passive. While that may be the case when…
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Micro investing in Real Estate
Real estate is an area where many investors make their money. However, in the past, it has required a sizable investment to get started. That is no longer the…
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Micro Venture Capital Investing for Passive Income
As forms of passive income from investing go, the idea of micro venture capital investments is the best fit. These options can lose all of your funding…
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Microloans and Passive Income
Anyone that has ever been in debt has seen how lenders can make money. However, we often see the level of entry for a lender is far beyond our means. Never…
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Passive Income From The Stock Market
When you think of your money working for you, there are several options. However, the stock market is one of the best potential returns with easy entry. This…
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Public Speaking For Passive Income
There are several passive income and side hustle options that get mentioned over and over. Public speaking is one of those options. It seems like it is a…
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Content Producer For Passive Income
While not precisely passive, a content producer can open up multiple streams of revenue. We will point back to this option as a potential step in several…
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Affiliate Links For Passive Income
One of the most popular methods of passive income is the use of affiliate links. While there are courses and numerous books about it, there is a lot that gets…
- Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur
Creating Products as Passive Income
The best possible approach to passive income is by creating products. Even a single product can provide a substantial profit. Of course, there is a cost…
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Value-Added Reselling As Passive Income
Value-added reselling is roughly a form of passive income. However, it is still a good enough approach for us to look at it as an option. This approach can…
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The Passive Income Approaches Season Overview
Passive income is a hot topic in certain quarters. Likewise, we have mentioned and even discussed this approach to revenue over the years. This season will…
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Book Recommendations During That Long Road Trip
Whether in audio form or the old-school paper version, books are an essential part of becoming a better developer. Better yet, they can help us enjoy life and…
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Podcast Recommendations To Improve Your Life
As a podcaster, I am also a fan. I listen to numerous shows and have for many years. Therefore it makes sense to offer an episode of podcast recommendations…
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Removing Solvers Block
In this stand-alone episode, we look at solvers block. This is what I call the situation where one can not seem to push through to a solution. It is not due to…
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The AntiPattern Season in Review
We have marched through 31 examples during this antipattern season. Therefore, we have enough of them to step back and look at themes, bad habits, and…
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Death By Planning - A Rigid Anti-Pattern
Death by planning is an anti-pattern that makes us look like lemmings. We make a plan, and then we follow it mindlessly. This approach can work for some…
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The Fire Drill Anti-Pattern
The fire drill anti-pattern is one that falls on project management. While we can personally place ourselves in this sort of situation, the anti-pattern comes…
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The Throw It Over The Wall Anti-Pattern
The throw it over the wall anti-pattern is shared across a broad range of disciplines. However, it is particularly damaging to the software development…
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Analysis Paralysis - An Over-thinking Anti-Pattern
The "Analysis Paralysis" anti-pattern may be the most well known. It has a few other names. However, a search on this one will return a broad range of results…
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Mushroom Management - A Miscommunication Epidemic Anti-Pattern
The mushroom management anti-pattern is one that appears everywhere. While it can be simplified to keeping employees in the dark, there is more to it. The side…
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The Feature Creep Anti-Pattern
Feature creep is one of the most prevalent anti-patterns in my experience. I personally find it a recurring challenge to avoid. The issue is that we can always…
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The Magic Strings Anti-Pattern
The magic strings anti-pattern implies a much more entertaining experience than it is. This coding style is not rare. Thus, it is likely you have encountered…
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The Death March AntiPattern
The death march anti-pattern is one of the most painful to endure. There is even a tendency to envy those involved in actual ones. This situation crushes…
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Cover Your Assets - The CYA Anti-Pattern
In this episode, we cover another anti-pattern that everyone has experienced. However, the CYA approach is not often seen as something to avoid. There are…