Category: Business
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Now available: My interview on “Developer on Fire” about training programmers
I was recently interviewed by Dave Rael for the “Developer on Fire” podcast. That episode has now been released, at http://developeronfire.com/Podcast/Episodes/reuven-lerner-sharing-insight. Enjoy!
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Announcing: Coaching for technical trainers
What, exactly, do I do for a living? Yes, I’m a programmer — or as I’m supposed to say nowadays, a “full-stack Web developer.” And yes, I’m a lead developer/CTO.
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New ebook: Jewish guide to visiting China
As many people know, I’ve visited China seven times over the last three years, traveling there to give courses in Python and Ruby. I just got back from my most
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How not to write an error message
Users and programmers see error messages very differently. When a user sees an error message, they think, “Oh, no. Something went wrong.” Rarely, in my experience, does the user think
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“Practice Makes Python” is now available for early-bird purchase
My first ebook, “Practice Makes Python” — containing 50 exercises that will help to sharpen your Python skills — is now available for early-bird purchase! The book is already about 130 pages (and
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Book Review: The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
In order to get an undergraduate degree from MIT, at least when I was there, you needed to take a certain number of humanities and social-science courses. This was to
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The real questions to ask offshore developers
Friends of mine, who are not software developers, have a small, retail Internet business. The original developers created the application in Python, and my friends are looking for a full-stack Web/Python
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Starting a new software project? Don’t start coding right away.
It’s always fun to start a new project. I should know; I’ve been a consultant since 1995, and have started hundreds of projects of various shapes and sizes. It’s tempting,
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If you build it, they will come — but they might hate you
Several months ago, I was teaching an introductory Python course, and I happened to mention the fact that I use Git for all of my version-control needs. I think that
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Good intentions, unexpected results: Mailing lists and DMARC
If there’s anything that software people know, it’s that changing one part of a program can result in a change in a seemingly unrelated part of the program. That’s why