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27Apr 202314 Jun 2023

Scaling for Small and Medium Technology Companies

I’ve noticed many articles, books, and blog posts for Technology Leadership / Management are written by people who now or…

16Sep 201815 Jun 2023

Software Engineering Leadership

Software Engineer leadership is where you lead/manage a number of software engineers, directly or via another manager(s). Your title could…

19Mar 20182 Dec 2018

Leadership by Example

This blog post is a continuation from a previous one called Leading Leaders “We must be the change we wish…

Becoming Intermediate -Growing beyond a junior software developer

29 Jul 201410 Mar 2019

I think junior, intermediate titles belittle people and their capabilities/talents/skills. Where as sometimes the senior title can over in-flate your capabilities, whilst belittling others. We as humans love our labels as…

Hacking Health – Gaining a suntan in Whitehorse, Yukon whilst coding

13 May 201416 Jan 2018

I headed to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada to spend the weekend at a HackingHealth weekend. It was an amazing weekend because of the people, the event was interesting but the people…

railsconf 2014

29 Apr 201416 Jan 2018

Overall I enjoyed this conference more than last year. I am now 15 months along my journey into Rails/Ruby. I considered whether my enjoyment was because I understand a lot more…

Surviving as a Junior software developer

31 Mar 201414 Feb 2019

If it helps, you are never ready, you will never know enough, and the key is knowing how to cope with that. At the beginning you may have no idea or a…

Software Development…

Visual overview of Ruby on Rails

30 Mar 201416 Jan 2018

Please give feedback Version 0.1 - credit Brooke and Eric Version 0.2 - Made full size, made core library labels bigger, bold text and strengthened lines - credit Andrius and Trevor…

Career Management…

Actions speak louder then words

28 Mar 201428 Mar 2014

A person, company, organization community can be judged on its actions and behaviours not its intents. Especially when the shit hits the fan. Its easy to be nice when the…

Career Management…

Becoming a junior rails developer

23 Feb 201416 Jan 2018

So I looked for a tech cofounder and infact found almost three. Then a friend who was a developer said they would be happy to "play" and see what comes…

Career Management…

the need to reflect on yourself

26 Sep 201328 Sep 2013

I am a workaholic (I never feel I work hard enough), there used to be a few things that make me pause and force me to reflect such as illness,…

Building an open source program for technology co-founders

29 May 20131 Jun 2013

In February I wrote a blog post about the lack of support for technology co-founders in BC, Canada. I have decided to pull together an open source program/set of courses…

Career Management…

Leading your professional you

27 May 201328 May 2013

The reality for most people is you will have many jobs and careers. My journey so far would appear to be all over the map. I started as apprentice potter,…