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Finding Your Flow and Motivation – Leveling Up

kate — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:21:47 +0000

Getting into the flow. It is Monday and your list of “to do” items is so long, and you are sure there are at least 10 things missing. You know that you should fix those bugs, complete the half-finished project, and respond to a handful of email messages; and you should handle these items as [...]

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Architecture of Open Source Applications Book is out! WOO!

kate — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:53:55 +0000

Hey everyone, If you have been reading my blog then you may remember me posting about this book chapter I worked on over the summer. Earlier this year I posted a part of the chapter that didn’t the final cut (distributed systems fault tolerance and monitoring). Well, the book finally came out! You can read [...]

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Finding Your Path – Leveling Up in Your Career

kate — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:57:07 +0000

Finding your path I am working on this talk for Velocity 2012 in June. I am actually super excited about the presentation because I think I have a witty theme (which makes fun slides easier) but also because there is so much great content and advice that can fall under this umbrella. And as I [...]

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Performance Management – Addressing Bad Attitudes

kate — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:18:58 +0000

This post is special because it stems from a question I received via email. I think it is a great question because in tech it is very easy to meet the smart programmer that is a pain-in-the-ass to work with. Performance is bracketed to 2 major categories, those of skill and those of behavior (one [...]

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Secure Early Wins in the First 3 Months – New Tech Leader Series

kate — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:17:42 +0000

Focus on early wins (Note: This post is part of a series for new technical leaders that are joining a new company, or taking over a new organization or team; and while written for new CTOs, VPs of Engineering, or Software Managers, could be applied to other technical positions. This is also written largely for [...]

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Assessing Technical Risks for Startups – New Tech Leader Series

kate — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:25:06 +0000

(Note: This post is part of a series for new technical leaders that are joining a new company, or taking over a new organization or team; and while written for new CTOs, VPs of Engineering, or Software Managers, could be applied to other technical positions. This is also written largely for smaller to mid-size teams [...]

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Understanding Company Strategy – New Tech Leader Series

kate — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:53:35 +0000

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A Letter To My Younger Self

kate — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:07:24 +0000

Normally I don’t do this many personal posts in a row, but this week I was inspired by Jesse’s post, so I thought I would join in writing my own letter to my former myself a decade or so in the past. —— Dear Katherine (since you don’t call yourself Kate yet), Hello from the [...]

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Why is the grass always greener?

kate — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:04:34 +0000

I consider myself lucky. I have a loving family, a good job, and a nice home. Working in technology we are so fortunate because we get paid very well to solve interesting problems. For most of us we enjoy a large part of our jobs, we use our minds (no hard physical labor – which [...]

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20 Things Every iOS And Mobile Dev Should Consider in Their App Promotion Strategy

kate — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:58:46 +0000

As any experienced mobile developer will tell you, it requires 100s of hours to craft a great mobile application. So much of that time is invested in pouring over the myriad details critical to delivering a quality user experience, carefully designing and coding the interactions, workflow and functionality that will blow people’s minds. However, all [...]

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