Posted by: John Sonmez | May 19, 2013

Getting Started With Glimpse In ASP.NET MVC

If you are using ASP.NET, especially if you are using ASP.NET MVC, you need to be using Glimpse. I’m currently working on a more exhaustive Pluralsight course on Glimpse, but I thought I’d write up a quick getting started tutorial here. What is Glimpse? Perhaps you haven’t heard of Glimpse yet, or you are just [...]

Posted by: John Sonmez | May 12, 2013

5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project FAIL

Far too many Agile development projects fail. It is hard to even accurately measure the number of failures because so many software development projects end up “complete” and shipped, even though: They took far too long to build The quality of what we built was poor What was built was not what the customer wanted [...]

Posted by: John Sonmez | May 10, 2013

Introducing The Get Up And Code Podcast!

I’m very excited to announce a brand new podcast Iris Classon and I have put together called “Get Up And Code!” I’ve always wanted to do a podcast, but I’ve been looking for the right topic and right co-host and I believe I have finally found both. Get Up And Code! Podcast website: http://getupandcode.com iTunes [...]

Posted by: John Sonmez | May 6, 2013

Why JavaScript Is Doomed

JavaScript is a bubble. Just like the housing bubble. Just like the .COM bubble. And just like any bubble, the JavaScript bubble is bound to pop. Sure, JavaScript is everywhere.  It appears to be growing at a rapid pace.  But I’m willing to bet that we are getting close to a complete reversal that will [...]

Posted by: John Sonmez | April 28, 2013

How To Deal With Making Mistakes

What do you do when you make a mistake? Not just in your job, but in life in general? I’ve made some pretty big mistakes in my career . Just last month I was giving a talk at the Orlando Code Camp and I forgot to bring an adapter to go from DVI to VGA [...]

Posted by: John Sonmez | April 22, 2013

Privacy Is Dead, Time To Prepare For The Future

Personal privacy is over. The world knows more about you than you do and soon it will know even more. We can keep fighting the battle to secure our privacy or we can learn how we need to live in the coming age where all of our actions are potentially in public view. Before you [...]

Posted by: John Sonmez | April 14, 2013

What Makes Code Readable: Not What You Think

You often hear about how important it is to write “readable code.” Developers have pretty strong opinions about what makes code more readable. The more senior the developer, the stronger the opinion. But, have you ever stopped to think about what really makes code readable? The standard answer You would probably agree that the following [...]

Posted by: John Sonmez | April 7, 2013

Bad Advice: “Stop Working So Hard”

I’ve been seeing quite a few posts on Hacker News lately about why you should not work too hard and even saying you should work less than 35 hours a week. (Now, don’t get me wrong.  I think the authors of these articles are awesome people who have accomplished huge things.  I don’t mean to [...]

The recent free courses from Pluralsight on teaching kids to program really got me thinking about this subject. There seems to be a big backlash in development community against the idea that everyone should learn to program. I’m not sure exactly where it is coming from, but I suspect it has something to do with [...]

Posted by: John Sonmez | March 24, 2013

10 Developer Job Interview Tips To Land The Best Job You Can

There isn’t a large amount of advice out there on developer job interviews. I’ve found that many talented developers have difficulty with job interviews, because they spend more of their time focusing on what they are truly passionate about, technology and development, and not much time prepping their interview skills. It’s unfortunate, because having good [...]

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