FrazzledDad

I’ve been a part of teams organizing a pretty good number of developer community events here in the Heartland over the last few years. I’ve ...

Wow. 90 or so folks showed up yesterday for an amazing event: the Software Engineering 101 Conference . Everyone seemed pretty fired up, ene...

In my Leadership 101 talk I really harp on the importance of leading from the front, particularly as you get higher up in an organization. ...

I’ve got a couple speaking engagements coming up over the next two months: 23 Sept: Software Engineering 101 Conference . I’m helping o...

Doh! I missed the mail that my 2idi wasn’t providing my contact service any more, so the “Contact Me” link on my sidebar hasn’t worked for, ...

Living Green, the Missing Manual by Nancy Conner, pub by O’Reilly, ISBN 0596801726. This book can be preachy and a bit breathless in some...

During devLink a few folks from the region’s community were gabbing about a variety of topics, including burnout, motivation, FUD, and a nu...

Last Saturday I was lucky enough to participate on a devLink discussion panel on “Has Software Development Gotten Too Complex?” The panel w...

Problem: You’re trying to RDP to a remote server and you get the message “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed co...

Last weekend I was at devLink in Nashville. On Thursday I was trying to finish up some work and looked for a quiet spot, so I headed to the...

Go sign up now for the Software Engineering 101 conference . What is the SWE 101 conference? Go read my previous post on it !

UPDATE! Registration is open here . A few great speakers and I are working to put on a unique event on Wednesday, 9/23: Software Engineer...

Here are reviews for two books I’ve recently run through. Stand Back and Deliver by Pollyanna Pixton, et. al. Pub by Addison Wesley, ISBN...

I gave my “Three Tips to Improve Your Process” talk at devLink last week. You can find the deck here . Thanks to the folks who attended! ...

I was at eRubyCon this last week, courtesy of Joe O’Brien and the great folks at EdgeCase who invited me to speak. This was my first co...

UPDATED: It’s now December, 2010 and I’ve got another open position on my team! Everything below still applies. Contact info is at the bott...

Tom DeMarco, author of the seminal book Peopleware has written a short, interesting article Software Engineering, An Idea Whose Time has Co...

I’ve got a number of upcoming speaking gigs through September: 23 July. Three Tips to Improve Your Development Process , Dayton .NET De...

Beautiful Security , ed. by Andy Oram and John Vega, ISBN 0596527489, published by O’Reilly. Like O’Reilly’s Beautiful Teams , this book’...

The Nomadic Developer by Aaron Erickson, published by Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-321-60639-6. If you’re in the software consulting business, ...