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2014 Salary Survey Results
A total of 60 different people from across the world completed the survey. I saw a mix of corporate executives, entry-level engineers, and freelancers with anywhere from 3 to 20 years of experience in the field.
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Write-only Database Scheme
Would restricting database options to write-only give us a proper solution for data consistency and networked installations?
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Be Yourself
Understand who you are and what you stand for. It won’t always be popular, but so long as you’re consistent to your internal identity, I’m confident you’ll come out just fine.
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Most Christmas Music Isn’t for Me
If anyone stopped to ask me, though, they’d learn I both love and look forward to the Christmas holiday – this coming week the most.
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Immediate Reaction to EU VAT Regulations
The thought that I have to pay a European tax because the end recipient of my digital work lives in Europe feels like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.
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Death by Documentation
Before I finally made it to a more modern company that fully embraced Agile methodologies, I worked for a firm that used the waterfall method exclusively for project planning. It was a nightmare.
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The Sony Precedent
I can’t stand bullies, and I won’t let fear instilled by others dictate how I live my life.
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First Thought Wrong
In the most emotionally charged situations, though, your first response is often the wrong response.
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Bundling and Bloatware
Many would argue that Jetpack, not WordPress itself, is a dangerous bundle of bloatware.
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No Excuses
If I’ve learned anything over my career thus far, it’s that we come up with the stupidest excuses to not do something.