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A Bookmarklet to Switch Your Backgrounds at Will  I'm giving this bookmarklet my 'tool of the week' honors.  Not that I've really made a trend out...

0 replies - 4080 views - 02/05/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Software Development: Specialize or Generalize?

Now here’s a good topic for discussion. Many years ago we were hiring software developers as such. For the most part, they were good at their job, but...

3 replies - 2457 views - 02/04/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 345 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

What If We ______ Like We Hire Programmers – What Questions Are Appropriate?

Programmers often experience a high degree of frustration during the interview process, and one primary source of annoyance is how the programmer perceives the...

0 replies - 2395 views - 01/18/13 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Taco-Driven Development

We try to have fun together at Famigo.  Every Wednesday we have Taco Twednesday, in which we all leave the office to eat at and review various taco...

0 replies - 2810 views - 01/14/13 by Cody Powell in Articles

Karma and Team Management - My Experience at Cerebrata

In this post about my journey with Cerebrata, I will talk about team management (erstwhile known as Human Resource Management or at times in India as Personnel...

1 replies - 2472 views - 01/11/13 by Gaurav Mantri in Articles

On-Boarding New Team Members

Effective software architecture sketches can help you move faster Last year I wrote a blog entry called Presentation vs solution that talked about how not...

0 replies - 1062 views - 01/11/13 by Simon Brown in Articles

On What to Learn

An aspect that I’ve enjoyed of participating as a mentor in the PHP Mentoring program is the interesting and provocative questions I receive from my...

0 replies - 239 views - 01/11/13 by Matthew Turland in Articles

I Made a Lot of Money, and It Made Me Very Happy

The year 2012 was (financially) my best year ever. The sum of revenue on courses, workshops, presentations, royalties, product sales, licenses, and house...

0 replies - 2461 views - 01/07/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

You're Only a Beginner Once - Dig a Little Deeper

I was reading an interesting study last week about how willpower seems to grow like a muscle.  In the study they had found that subjects that had...

0 replies - 2373 views - 01/02/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer

With the vast array of technology, language and platform choices available today, it can be very difficult to figure out where to best invest time in training...

17 replies - 35820 views - 12/10/12 by John Sonmez in Articles

3 Ideas for Hacking Your Job Search

Demand for talented engineers has never been higher. It is in fact the dirty little secret of the startup industry, that there are simply not enough...

0 replies - 5380 views - 12/07/12 by Sean Hull in Articles

Why Great Teams Build Great Products

The software development process can be a complicated tango of deadlines, constraints, and expectations. Knowing this, companies must have an increased...

0 replies - 5260 views - 12/02/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

7 Simple Interview Prep Steps For Geeks

Failing an interview due to a lack of qualifications is forgivable, but it is tragic when highly qualified candidates do not get an offer due to being...

0 replies - 4741 views - 11/29/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Don't be a Scholar, Be an Engineer

Many software developers I know seem obsessed with learning new technologies, even some of them use this is as a scale to measure how much progress they've...

2 replies - 6977 views - 11/28/12 by Yazan Jaber in Articles