5 Tips for Effective Collaboration in Software Engineering Teams
In this fourth article in the series of Life Lessons of a Software Engineer, we explore the lesson of collaborate effectively with others working with a team of software engineers. Any software engineering team that wants to succeed must be able to work together well. It requires good communication skills, the ability to work well
Maximizing Quality and Efficiency: The Top 5 Testing Practices for Your Code, Including ChatGPT
In this third article in the series of Life Lessons of a Software Engineer, we explore the lesson of thoroughly testing your code. Testing your code is an important part of making software. It helps you make sure that your code is reliable, efficient, and bug-free. By writing and running tests, you can find issues
Code Hygiene: How to Write Clean, Readable, and Maintainable Code
In this second article in the series of Life Lessons of a Software Engineer, we explore the lesson of maintaining good code hygiene. Code hygiene is an important part of software development. It refers to the practices and habits that developers use to keep their code clean, organized, and easy to understand and maintain. Having
7 Tips for Continuously Learning and Improving Your Skills as a Software Engineer
In this first article in the series of Life Lessons of a Software Engineer, we explore the lesson of continuously learning to improve your skills. As a software engineer, you need to keep learning and improving your skills to keep up with the newest technologies and best practices in your field. Here are some things
Revolutionizing software development with AI: How algorithms are transforming requirement gathering and analysis
As software engineers keep improving artificial intelligence to find new ways to help us all in our daily lives, I’d like to turn our attention to using the same tools to make the processes that make software more efficient. AI algorithms can look at unstructured text, such as user stories or requirements documents, and pull
10 Essential Life Lessons for Software Engineers
My original plan for this blog post was to be a simple summary, but I’ve decided to go into detail with a unique blog article for each life lesson. Along the way, I’ll introduce how emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to make an impact on a particular lesson as well. As a software
Maximizing Productivity: The Importance of Being Proactive in Problem-Solving
In this fifth article in the series of Life Lessons of a Software Engineer, we explore the lesson of being proactive in problem-solving and seeking out solutions quickly to address issues as they arise. As people and as a society, we always have problems and challenges to deal with. It can be tempting to wait
Thoughts on Web 3.0 and Decentralization
In the last decade, the world has trended toward reducing IT costs via a cloud-first strategy, which has driven the software development patterns of organizations to move on to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to rethinking existing projects and a SOA-first strategy for new projects. The world realized quickly that security was going to
What Is A Technology Leader and Are You Ready?
A technology leader is anyone that defines and executes the vision and technology goals for one or more individuals, teams, or divisions within a organization. Rob Kennedy The definition above is a high-level look at what a technology leadership role does within an organization, but the role is much richer and more complex than the
How to Query SQL Server XML data type Columns in Entity Framework Core 3.x
I’m sure if you’ve found this page, you’re at wits end in trying to figure out how to use the long-built-in XML query functionality of SQL Server while using Entity Framework, Dapper, or other ORM. Some might find it easy to simply write their query in plain SQL and execute it. However in my case,