We need to balance our Magpie Developer tendencies against the need to learn new things. Here's some ideas on how to do that!

Last year I had several friends inquire if I was going to stage another DetroitDevDay. I had taken over from my dear friend Dave McKinnon and I had run it for a couple of go-rounds. Honestly though, I was getting a bit worried that DetroitDevDay was becoming almost YADLTC (Yet Another Day Long Tech Conference). […]

We (the folks who previously put on the DetroitDevDay conference) are going to be starting a new annual event on June 29, 2019 at TechTown in Detroit. I will share more details here as I get them but I wanted to make sure folks are aware.

I’ve been having a conversation with some folks on Twitter about their evidence that mob programming makes Brooks’ Law irrelevant. Someone offered evidence based upon his own experience that mob programming breaks this rule.  I hope I’m not mischaracterizing his argument. That is,  I don’t think he’s saying that mob programming negates Brooks’ Law–I think […]

So I’ve been trying to keep my development skills somewhat sharp by working on coding up certain data structures in C#.  Course I’d rather do this with F# or even some more interesting FP language (Elm anyone?) but I do have a need to be able to show this code to student developers and the […]