FrazzledDad

Two of the worst leadership failures I’ve seen both involved me as the recipient of dishonest, duplicitous actions by leaders while I was in...

The Central Ohio Day of .NET will be Saturday, 18 April, and will once again be held at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio. We’re now...

While at Quick Solutions , I had mentorship responsibilities for a number of folks. I was very fortunate that all my mentorees were in Quick...

My first Air Force assignment after basic training was technical training school at Keesler AFB in Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi. There I joi...

Note: This post really dovetails with the prior one “ Foster Success with Small Victories ”, and might even be the same concept but spun dif...

Confidence is a nebulous, sometimes fragile thing. (Confidence ain't arrogance or ego.) As a leader you need to build the confidence of ...

Twice I've worked for people who surprised me with personnel changes via PowerPoint slides shown on the wall at staff meetings. The firs...

Great leaders project calmness, even during crises. Your team doesn’t benefit from you losing your cool when times are tough. They need the ...

Gasp! Jim is actually writing a technical blog post! I'm using Selenium to write UI/feature tests for Community Server and Evolution. ...

It’s Monday following the conclusion of CodeMash 2009 , and I have to say it was the best CodeMash to date. The PreCompiler went off really...

Respect is a crucial thing in any relationship, whether it's personal or professional. Furthermore, it’s like a currency that you can’t ...

First and foremost, as a leader your #1 job is to protect your people. In the Army a platoon leader's job is to keep his people from get...

Leadership is near and dear to my heart.  It's something that I've had a lot of exposure to in many contexts over my more-than-a-few...

(Cross-posted on the CodeMash Google Group .) I'm pleased to announce a great opportunity for learning about new technologies at CodeM...

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt, ISBN 1934356050. Yet another terrific book from Pragmatic Press, this one on the critical s...

CodeMash is about community. It’s about passionate geeks from a bunch of different domains getting together and sharing a lot of ideas. C...

Problem: I'm writing a Selenium test that needs to click a button in a table row. Said table row has a title cell. Said row may not alw...

We’ve finalized the schedule for CodeMash 2009!  Check out the schedule on the CodeMash site ! What? You’ve still not registered for CodeM...

Problem: On my Xbox I canceled a content download (like the Gears of War Flashback Map Pack). Now the download doesn't show in my histo...

More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# by Bill Wagner. ISBN 0321485890 This is a follow on to Bill’s other book, Effectiv...