I have blogged before about some of the skills that a consultant should be acquainted with like Story Telling, Knowledge Depth & Breadth, and Having an Opinion, all of which I see very important. But in this post I would not hesitate to say that self-confidence is the single most important amongst them all! Before… Read More »
This is the third of three posts I’ve written about consultant’s skills, check the previous posts if you like: Consultant Skills: Story Telling Consultant Skills: Knowledge Depth & Breadth ————- We work in an industry where one general problem can be solved by too many ways, each emerges from a different mindset and different circumstances.… Read More »
I had the opportunity to visit Mount Buller to do skiing for the first time in my life (thanks to Joshua McKinny), and the experience was UNBELIEVABLE! In addition to the loads of fun I had, I learned some life lessons that can be applied in any field, even software! and I’d like to share… Read More »
It’s a crazy era for IT! everyday new concepts, libraries, products, and even languages are introduced; so many solutions for so many problems. It is indeed the era of specialization. There is absolutely no way to grasp all this knowledge, specialization and concentration of knowledge has to occur, and we must choose a technology to… Read More »
Yesterday I was playing with Kudu, the Azure websites deployment engine, and it was all fun and joy. While I was happily hitting the key strokes of joy enjoying the new cool stuff I implementing, I got an error, and shamefully the minute I saw the error I copied and pasted it to Google! For… Read More »
If you are in the software industry, you HAVE to read, read, and read; and it’s not only the “of course reading is essential”, it’s a matter of life and death…of your career! And there is tons of material every day: books, blogs, news, articles,….etc., so how to manage? of course is Speed Reading. Once… Read More »
I have installed the latest Parallels update and created a new Windows 8 virtual machine. Being in all-touch universe right now, the guys behind Windows 8 decided to use corners of the screen to do certain actions like showing Start, active applications, or the settings flay-out. The issue is that I couldn’t use these corners… Read More »
The ASP.NET MVC team made our lives easier when they created the Html editor extension method Html.EditoFor(); you just pass the model property and it creates the right editor, filling it with the property’s value…but not always! Let’s consider that we have the conventional route definition: routes.MapRoute( "Default", // Route name "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with… Read More »
Recently I had to go through some health checkup that included tests for my eye, one of these tests required from me to keep my eye open for a long period of time concentrating continuously into an extremely strong and annoying light. During the test I kept receiving encouraging words from the examining doctor every… Read More »
Since Google changes the look of its products very often, most likely this post will be out of date soon, nonetheless I believe it’d be a good to share my thoughts about Google Reader’s current UI… with a little rant. Lots of real-state waste: All the areas surrounded with yellow borders are a wasted, especially… Read More »