Some career advice for new Computer Science Grads
I read this post from the career site at my alma mater regarding ways for computer science majors to make themselves stand out. Here’s what I would tell a recent grad who may have read this post:...
View ArticleEmbrace detail, and ignore detail at the same time
Filed under “Career advice for new grads.” Experiences from working with our new hires. One of the toughest challenges for young people in our industry is moving from an academic career to a...
View ArticleThe End of an era. Now what?
With Steve Jobs leaving Apple, our industry faces something it hasn’t faced in decades. The two men that built the PC era, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, have both left the companies they founded. I don’t...
View ArticleThurs at Build: C# Futures, Metro, Developer Tools
Let’s preface by correcting a couple tweets from yesterday. First, the next version of C# will be C# 5.0, not C# 4.5 as I heard earlier. The next version of the framework will be .NET 4.5. However,...
View ArticleBuild, one week later
It’s a little more than a week after //build/ and now I’ve had time to let more of the announcements, changes, and future technology sink in. Users: Windows 8 and Metro I’ve tried to spend the last...
View ArticleBook Review: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
I don’t often review business books here, but “Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and why it matters”, by Richard Rumelt is an exception. For my audience, the best feature is that Rumelt is an...
View ArticleSoftware: The most important Growth Industry
Earlier this week, I read two interesting articles on the importance of software and developer talent to future economic growth and prosperity. They are particularly important because I’ve been asked...
View ArticleWhy we don’t hire booth babes
While at CodeMash last week, both BBC and ZDNet published stories about the use of booth babes (BBC’s term) at conferences. We don’t hire models for our booth at conferences, and we’re not going to....
View ArticleThe efficiency of Self-Organizing Teams
We experienced a great example of the efficiency of self-organizing teams last Friday. We’ve been in the same offices for several years now, and like many tech people we’ve started to accumulate aging...
View ArticleDianne Marsh interviewed by Michigan Business Network
Dianne Marsh was recently interviewed by the Michigan Business Network. In the interview, she discusses the company’s success to date and future plans. Be sure to check it out if you’re interested in...
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