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(Part 4) Are you avoiding this?

This is part 4 of a 4-part series of blogs to help Learning & Development practitioners. If you missed the previous articles, here are the links: Part 1: Aaagh – all that terminology! Part 2: What really matters to developers? Part 3: Did you check the training plan? Here’s a

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(Part 3) Did you check the training plan?

This is part 3 of a 4-part series of blogs to help Learning & Development practitioners. If you missed the previous articles, here are the links: Aaagh – all that terminology! What really matters to developers? Today I want to share some thoughts about the training plan.

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Beam me up to the zone

In the zone: A mental state in which the performance of an activity is handled with focus, skill and energy. Developers know all about “the zone”. That mental space when you get into the flow of writing code and solving problems. It’s not just for programming. Any activity that requires time

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(Part 2) What really matters to developers?

This is part 2 of a 4-part series of blogs to help Learning & Development practitioners. If you missed it, you can read part 1 about terminology. Think back to when you were at school. What subject did you love or hate most, and why? Almost every time I ask

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(Part 1) Aaagh! All that terminology!

This is part 1 of a 4-part series of blogs to help Learning & Development practitioners. If you arrange the training for software developers, you have a tough job! They use terminology that no-one else understands. And they are fussy about their training. The first and biggest problem you have

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The Pumpkin of Programming

Diacritic: Also called a diacritical mark or accent, this is a mark or glyph added to a letter or character. You might not know the term, but you’ve used characters with diacritic accents. Think about é and è and ě and ê and ė and ē and ë. All “e”

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Your Guide to Design Patterns – Façade Pattern

This week we’ll continue our exploration of design patterns and look at another structural pattern, the Façade pattern. The Façade Pattern The Gang of Four book defines the Façade pattern as follows: "Provide a unified interface to a set of interfaces in a subsystem. Façade defines a higher-level interface that makes the

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Why you don’t let a programmer name your child

Appellation: the word by which a thing is called and known. I thought of writing about something more serious this week. Like the significant security flaws in the City of Joburg’s online system. If you live in Joburg and pay your accounts online, your personal information is at risk. Another

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