Last week, I got an email about domain renewal-this blog is already one year old. Besides that, I’m very close to reaching blog post number 100. Based on my experience, what are things beginner tech bloggers can do to maximize the benefits of running a technical blog? Assumptions To make sure…

A language learning story that is far too common: you learn a language for some time, months or years, but you struggle to say the simplest thing in it. But when you consider how the average language lesson looks, this result is not a surprise. Most of the language classes…

We all write on computers, and we all use some automated help with our writing. Browsers and text editors highlight words that they don’t find in their dictionaries. The onscreen keyboards on mobile devices suggest words as we type. Besides those basic solutions, there are dedicated applications that take autocorrect…

A simple model of how to evaluate the next step in the never-ending training! — In your software development career, you’ll never run out of new things to learn. Moreover, most developers are keen on learning — otherwise, they would never get this job. With so much eagerness and infinite possibilities, what makes the biggest difference is prioritizing the right things first. Let’s take a…

Here’s my current collaboration plan to make sure mentees can progress with their goals and that our time is spent efficiently. — I’ve been mentoring people for IT roles for a long time. At first, these were friends or work colleagues who were asking me some job-related questions. When I started this blog, I got more systematic about finding mentees-I need more contact with people similar to my readers so that I…

Testers play an important role in software development. — Software testing is a tech job that doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. It’s critical to keep customers happy while the product they are using is actively developed; nobody would be pleased with new features if each release breaks something else in the software. Testers play an important…

Fixing bugs is an integral programming activity. It’s impossible to write code without bugs- you always start with something, test it, and repair whatever is wrong. The experience of working on bugs is vastly different between projects you do on your own and commercial projects at work. In this article…