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outsourcing is expensive …

April 2, 2014 By Derick

A friend of mine was recently complaining about the price of lawn mowers in his neighborhood. He said (emphasis mine), “Thinking I really should hire a lawn care service this year to do my lawn.  It takes me about 45 minutes every Saturday just to mow, plus buying gas, sweeping the driveway, showering afterwards… Probably […]

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stay relevant in technology?

April 2, 2014 By Derick

So, I’m doing something new this week. Instead of just offering my own thoughts and ideas, I’m taking questions from readers on the list, here, and answering those questions. You ask. I answer. Everyone benefits. This week’s question is the first one that I received from a mailing list member, and it’s a good one […]

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the secret of your success

March 27, 2014 By Derick

Over the years, I’ve received a lot of questions about career goals, directions, how to become a known developer, etc. The underlying theme to all of these questions is this: What’s the secret to my success, and how can that person duplicate it? So what’s my secret? How have I been able to make a name […]

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time zones and screwing up my release date

March 19, 2014 By Derick

I launched a screencast on a Monday morning… February 24th, 2014. Except, I mean it launched Sunday night. But it was supposed to launch Monday morning, only “Monday morning” was 12 hours earlier in Australia when it was Sunday night, here in Texas. *sigh* Time zones are hard. 1.21 Jigga-Watts This was the first time I’ve tried to […]

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raise your rates until they say no. then raise them again.

March 12, 2014 By Derick

Money is a taboo subject in the corporate world. Fortunately, I don’t work for a company anymore so I can tell you everything I know about money – including how I earned a higher hourly rate than than you might believe. 3 years ago when I went in to consulting and independent contracting, my long time consulting […]

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What will they say about you?

February 27, 2014 By Derick

If you’ve ever written a line of Ruby, you’ve been impacted by the work of Jim Weirich: developer, teacher, mentor, speaker. By all accounts, he was a great person. Was… Sadly, Jim died recently. I didn’t know Jim, personally. In fact I only recently met him in person for the first time at CodeMash 2014. […]

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