We are all responsible for navigating our careers. In a fast-changing job environment, traditional guidance became either nonexistent or of dubious quality. In my experience, we cannot hope that we will get a viable career plan from: traditional uni...
I’ve been mentoring people for IT roles for a long time. At first, these were friends or work colleagues who were asking me some job related questions. When I started this blog, I got more systematic about finding mentees—I need more contact with peo...
Having access to a more experienced programmer who wants to help you grow professionally can speed up your progress. Maybe they are: a friendly senior colleague on the job, a helpful friend, or an external mentor—free or paid How can you make sure ...
Learning to program can be an overwhelming project, especially when one is alone in navigating all the available options. There are so many: languages to choose from multiple frameworks in any of the languages many other layers to consider, as I wro...
