How To Have Fewer Bugs Starting Today

-Conduct Creative Code Reviews. Code reviews can be formal or informal, and they can be great even if you're a single-person team. I've had great luck read code printouts in all sorts of odd situations - in the pool, at the beach. Give it a shot. Try using markers and hacking the printouts all up. Try pasting all your code on the walls of a…

How to Deliver your Price Quote with Confidence

In this highly competitive market, it's easy to worry that once you state the price for your service, your prospective client will vanish. Even the most brazen of us may gulp when we finally have to say a number.

5 Steps to Poor Listening: The ordinary professionals guide

The development of non-technical, soft skills represents a significant choice in the career of IT professionals. For those who choose to take the road most traveled, here are a few thoughts on how to ensure poor client and peer relationships, projects that focus on solutions to the wrong problems, and working cross-purposes with your team.