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Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…around expectations, strong peers in product and program management, and a clear understanding of what it means to build team cultures within the org. That last point is especially important for new… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…skills if you are looking to continue growing up the management ladder. If you aren't, ask for it. Is not taking blocking tasks Just don't do it. If there is a really really cool technical… [more]
Today is going to be a great day, and other mindset shifts
…mental shift for individual contributors in their first management lead in particular. But such an important shift! Then comes Reframing Tech Debt from Increment Magazine (which is just always so… [more]
Why weird team names make sense
…own payments today, but if they also need to own session management or authentication, not a problem. It's easy to say "Oh yeah... sessions are owned by Python-Brug" and less easy to say… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…change. If you are leading people go learn about change management. You’re going to need it. Aside, Things that have worked for me: Build trust before you need it Be as transparent as possible… [more]
Direct Feedback
Jobs’s taste for merciless criticism was notorious; Ive recalled that, years ago, after seeing colleagues crushed, he protested. Jobs replied, “Why would you be vague?,” arguing that… [more]
There is a Right Way
I grew up working with power tools. I think I was 9 the first time I used a router. As a family we were making mancala boards for christmas presents for family and friends. The noise was intense, the… [more]
Current Projects Update
…is my first open source project, a form token management system designed to make fighting XSRF as simple as possible. Well that's the run down of the smaller personal apps I have out there. Check them… [more]
Trust and the Box
Last Friday I was in Historic Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center(jsc) listening to Milt Heflin, one of jsc’s Associate Directors, describe some of the history that happened… [more]
A Tale of Two Cookies: Securing ColdFusion Session Cookies
…this.loginstorage = "session"; this.sessionmanagement = true; this.sessiontimeout = createTimeSpan(0,0,30,0); this.setClientCookies = false; application.initKey = hash(hash('someRandomChars')); The… [more]