Tag Archives: career

No End to Programmers

Posted on February 8, 2025 by way0utwest

There’s an interesting piece at O’Reilly this week titled The End of Programming as We Know It. That’s actually a good title, but it doesn’t mean the end to programmers, developers, software engineers, of whatever people call themselves. The piece … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial | Tagged , | Comments Off on No End to Programmers

Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?

Posted on January 24, 2025 by way0utwest

The short answer is of course, most of us can learn and improve our skills to become better developers, engineers, DBAs, etc. While we might not be able to become the 10x engineer that many aspire to be, we can … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial | Tagged | Comments Off on Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?

Adding the Right Value

Posted on January 8, 2025 by way0utwest

I caught this post about a career presentation from Kendra Little and it resonated a bit with me. The summary of the post (it’s a bit long) is that there is valuable work that supports and benefits a team of … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial | Tagged | Comments Off on Adding the Right Value

The Learning Plan for 2025

Posted on January 3, 2025 by way0utwest

I saw a post from Brent Ozar a couple of months ago promoting his Black Friday sale, which is really a Month-of-November-Training-Sale. I like that he does this, as I know it can take time to get purchases approved and … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial | Tagged | Comments Off on The Learning Plan for 2025