Keeping Programmers Passionate With Training

As a manager of developers I have a goal of trying to provide at least one week of training per year at a bare minimum. For senior developers or even journeyman developers in transition the best available option is often a conference. The benefits far outweigh the costs:

Exposure to software development outside of your [...]

March 23rd, 2008 | Category: management, software development | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Scheme for This Year’s New Language

After some debating I came across the much talked about book, The Little Schemer, at the Borders near Union Square in San Francisco. It compelled me to make a purchase and I’ve slowly started going through the examples. I really like technical books where you don’t actually have to be on a live computer [...]

March 2nd, 2008 | Category: scheme, software development | One comment - (Comments are closed)