I recently received a booklet in the mail from AT&T. It was probably triggered as I recently registered a business entity. The booklet was a small business guide about 20 pages and looks like below. ...
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From Engineer to Manager : Benefits of transition
(Photo courtesy: Victor1558 CC-BY 2.0) Most of us get presented with the opportunity at some point in our career to take on people management responsibilities aka Manager. In the IT/software industry I have sensed a hesitation or sometimes even aversion to becoming a people manager. Often engineers look down upon managers as folks who are not technical and this is tends to be ...
Email vs Rest – Choosing the right media
(Photo by Curtis Jackson CC-BY 2.0) "When you got a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail" - Abraham Maslow I once had to manage a team member who used to come by my office whenever he needed to communicate with me. Sometimes it was as much as 10 times a day. It was interrupting my work and was affecting my productivity. The employee did not realize what he was ...
7 Tips for Making your Mobile App Marketable on the Appstore
Whether you are developing mobile apps for good karma or for making money we hope our apps get found and downloaded by as many people as possible. In my experience, most developers are tend to be focus on building the app, but, give little attention to marketability & marketing their app. And as a result most developers end up making little or no money. If you rely on your ...
Hacking meetings – How to stay away from useless meetings to get more done
The top reasons why software developers loose productivity are interruptions and meetings. Technology industry is probably the worst when it comes to having effective meetings. There is a constant demand to meet up and stay informed rather than meetup to make effective decision & make progress. Now, how do we hack the way we handle meeting so that we get productive and not ...