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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
Intellectual Violence - A Short-Sighted Anti-Pattern
This anti-pattern implies a heavier hand than is common. While the intellectual violence anti-pattern sounds shocking and over-the-top, it is common and often…
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Reinventing The Wheel - An Age-Old Anti-Pattern
It is hard to go through life without being warned against reinventing the wheel at some point. This recommendation is a general warning to avoid duplicating…
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The Swiss Army Knife AntiPattern
A swiss army knife is a great tool to carry around with you. However, this anti-pattern tells us that building a one-stop-shop for your design functionality is…
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Architecture By Implication - An Easy Anti-Pattern to Fall Into
While experience is an excellent teacher, it is not a silver bullet. Every problem we tackle is a little different. Thus, we should follow best practices even…
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The Grand Old Duke of York Anti-Pattern
The skills of writing code and abstracting functionality are not the same. This fact is why the Grand old Duke of York is an anti-pattern. Passing around…
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Design By Committee - A More is Less Anti-pattern
There is an old saw about too many cooks spoiling the broth. This statement roughly describes the design by committee anti-pattern. While two heads may be…
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The Warm Bodies AntiPattern - Not a Cool Situation
We all know that more is always better except when it is not. The challenge of quality and quantity is a common anti-pattern for software development. We take…
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Autogenerated Stovepipe - An Anti-Pattern
In an effort to re-use our previous work, we can over-simplify a solution. One such situation is when we grow from a stand-alone system to a distributed one…
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Wolf Ticket AntiPattern - Not What It Seems
We often look at vendors and standards for a way to improve productivity. There is nothing wrong with this and it even is a best practice. However, not…
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Defining The Jumble AntiPattern
In this episode, we tackle a higher form of the Spaghetti Code Anti-Pattern. While that is a code-level issue, the jumble antipattern shows up in the…
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The Input Kludge AntiPattern
It is hard to think of the word "kludge" and anything other than an anti-pattern. Thus, the input kludge antipattern is an obvious name. This example of how…
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The Ambiguous Viewpoint AntiPattern
The ambiguous viewpoint anti-pattern is one that goes to the heart of object-oriented design. We want to abstract and isolate functionality in a way that…
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Walking Through a Minefield AntiPattern
Velocity is an important part of modern software development. However, there is also that adage that "speed kills." Therefore, we need to strike a balance to…
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The Dead End AntiPattern - The Name Says It All
Over the years, we have built tiny up to large systems that provide a launching point for other applications. These solutions are built on the hard work and…
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The Copy Paste AntiPattern - An Easy Trap To Fall Into
We all do it. There is a chunk of code that almost does what we need. So, we copy and paste it where we want it then make some modifications. When we do this…
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The Lava Flow Pattern - After The Code Cools Down
While lava is hot and deadly early on, it becomes hard to move once it cools down. The is the thinking behind the name for the lava flow pattern. This…
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The Poltergeist Anti-Pattern - When Design Goes Bad
Best practices are like everything else. There are times to ignore or break the rules. The anti-pattern we cover in this episode results from not doing so. The…
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The Boat Anchor Anti-Pattern
Sometimes ideas that are good at one time become horrible later on. This is one of many ways to get stuck in the boat anchor anti-pattern. It is a situation…
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The Continuous Obsolescence Anti-Pattern
As hard it is to spell the Continuous Obsolescence anti-pattern is easy to fall into. The lure of shiny new versions of products often leads us into this trap…
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Spaghetti Code Anti-Pattern
The spaghetti code anti-pattern is one that has become less prevalent in applications. However, we can still see some excellent examples in the world of…
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The Golden Hammer Anti-Pattern
The next anti-pattern we look at is the golden hammer. It is another situation that seems to come up often. Thus, it is one we need to keep an eye out for in…
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The Blob Anti-Pattern
We will kick off the new season with a look at the Blob anti-pattern. This is one that is common and easy to fall into. The tendency to kick design decisions…
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A General Anti-Pattern Definition - New Season Kick-off
It is time to kick off a new season. Thus, we will set the tone by providing a general anti-pattern definition. Spoiler alert, this season will focus on…
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Success vs. Successful
Some recent pondering has me considering the whole idea of being successful. I think we can find success and happiness without worrying about being successful…
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Creating a Podcast - Not Just a Lot of Talking
There are a vast number of tutorials for creating a podcast. These cover the technical issues and often include some suggestions to help you be successful. In…
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Writing A Book - What You Should Know Before You Begin
One of the popular suggestions for passive income is writing a book. There are some pros to doing so. However, it is not a project to be undertaken lightly…
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Habits, Roadmaps, and the Value of Career Momentum
When we think of our professional lives, the result is a marathon, not a sprint. Thus, there is a need to develop a form of career momentum that can get us…
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Adding Soft Skills To Advance Your Career
It is probably not going to shock you to find that soft skills are an essential piece of success in your career. Technical skills are your primary asset…
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Advancing Your Career Through New Challenges
As you move through the years, you might find that advancing your career becomes a more significant challenge. There was so much to learn when you started…
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Giving Back As A Mentor, Coach, and Lead
We have looked this week at how to get the most out of mentors and teammates. However, we also should think about giving back. There will be opportunities to…
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Learning From Peers, Teammates, and Co-Workers
There are a wealth of teachers in our professional community. I have found the most common contributor to my success is learning from peers. The people around…
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Finding Mentors To Advance Your Knowledge and Career
There are many tools that will help us keep up with technology and even advance our career. These have differing values. However, finding mentors is often at…
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Developer Tool Categories You Should Know
While we have discussed a broad range of tools over the years. There are a lot of good ones out there that are free and even better ones that are commercial…
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Increasing Productivity and Quality With Proper Tools
One of the side effects of becoming a better developer is increasing productivity and quality. You literally get more value from time spent on a task. These…
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Enhancing Your Resume With Development Tools
A big part of advancing your career includes enhancing your resume. There will be new skills you pick up along the way, and it helps to let others know about…
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Researching New Tools and Technologies
Learning for our personal purposes is not the limit of what IT workers are asked to do. There are also situations where we need to learn the latest tools or…
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Career Advancement Through Training and Conferences
There are many ways to add to our skills and advance our career. While on-the-job learning is essential, formal learning situations can move the ball forward…
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Learning New Tech Skills On The Job
An IT career demands that we include learning new tech skills as part of our regular routine. This requirement often leads to a lot of time spent on career…
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Playing Your Professional Role as An Employee or Consultant - Career Intangibles
We all have seen situations in our career where we are asked to play a role. The role is sometimes a broader one than we are used to. However, we can also be…
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Best Practices For Travel and Related Expenses
A side hustle does not preclude travel. Thus, sooner or later you will face the question of how to handle travel and related expenses. You might not have to…
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Consulting Intangibles - Building Relationships
An excellent measure of long-term success is how much your customers like you. Thus, building relationships are a critical part of your job. You may have the…
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Explicit and Implicit Project Deliverables
We have touched on the idea that there are explicit and implicit project deliverables in most cases. These may be due to our customer simplifying a solution or…
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Deliverable Packaging and Creating a Customer Experience.
When we complete a project for a customer or employer, we give them a product. Thus, there is a form of deliverable packaging that we need to consider for that…
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Project Deliverables, Quality, Guidelines and Best Practices
Sooner or later, every developer is asked for project deliverables. This may be source code, binary files, or full-blown documents. No matter which of these is…
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Communicating Progress and Status - Consulting Tips
No matter how good you are at your job, sooner or later communicating status will be required. A helpful hint is to avoid waiting until this becomes a…
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Your Code Repository and Ownership of Source - Consulting Tips
A software consultant brings intellectual tools with them as well as applications. This capital comes in the form of experience and also the more concrete…
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Developer Tools and Licenses as a Consultant (or Employee)
One of the common aspects of consulting that is missed is clarity about developer tools and licenses. In particular, this obstacle is natural to overlook when…
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Consulting Project Enhancements and Follow-Ups
The completion of a project is not necessarily the end of a customer relationship. To the contrary, consulting project enhancements are a common way to keep…
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Writing Proposals and Winning Projects
Once you find a prospect your next step is turning them into a customer. In the IT world (as well as most other lines of business) this is done through a…
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Finding Consulting Projects Without Cold Calls
The challenge of finding consulting projects is not one you should overlook. However, the first is the hardest. Once you have a couple of projects under your…
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Fixed or Hourly Project Pricing
One of the critical choices in accepting a project is whether you will bill based on a fixed or hourly basis. The bottom line is that one approach places more…
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Consulting Invoices and Getting Paid
Whether you are running a side hustle or a full-blown business, at some point you will need to create consulting invoices. Well, unless you do not care about…
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Setting the Price for Software Consulting
The most common discussion I have had around consulting is setting the price on my services. Yes, customers care about my rates. However, the conversations…
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Honest Communication Is Critical For Consultants
There is a book on having difficult conversations. The challenge is that we do not like having them. They tend to be difficult. Unfortunately, this can…
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When To Vent (never) as part of Consulting Communication
As we continue to discuss consulting communication, we turn towards venting. This topic includes negative communication as well. To be clear, negative is not…
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CYA Documentation : Getting Started With Consulting
There are all sorts of documents that are needed for a consultant. However, the ones that provide a form of CYA documentation may be the most vital. This sort…
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Plan For Disruptions - Getting Started With Consulting
One of the hardest parts of building a consulting career is the disruptions that always occur. This is a path that often follows the feast or famine roller…
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That Final Push - Getting Started On Consulting
As we look at how and when to start a consulting business (or project), it helps to consider timing. Sometimes you can select when to start, and other times…
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Getting Started - Preparing for Consulting
This season is focusing on lessons learned from a consulting career. A lot of the content can be found in the Develpreneur book. However, we will go a little…
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Season 7 and Beyond: Advancing Your Career
This is a perfect time for us to look ahead at season seven and beyond. We will continue providing content for advancing your career starting with a deep dive…