Matt Warren

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  • Manager Who Codes vs Developer Team Lead

    Personal branding is deceptively effective in many cases. The difference is skills between a manager who codes and a developer team lead is negligible.  In many cases you could say they are job titles that describe the same role in a company and yet from a HR and status point of view they are very…

  • Reading Fewer Blogs

    For years I have had an extensive reading list of blogs that I read through everyday.  Scanning through 200+ blog posts per day was a way for me to keep up with the latest things happening.  However, the time it takes to read through everything was significant. I’ve decided to greatly reduce my subscribed blogs…

  • Ada Walking

    On Tuesday, Ada took her first un-assisted steps.  It’ll be a while until she develops the confidence to really get around the house on her own, but clearly that time is coming. I was convinced that she would be walking much earlier than this.  She was putting weight on her legs since she was 1…

  • Microservices

    The term Service Oriented Architecture has been twisted by so many people now that it has lost some of it’s meaning. Microservices is a software architecture for web apps that aims to define a more specific way of doing SOA that isn’t so fuzzy and hand wavy. Web applications have long been developed in a…

  • Rhinoceros

    In a recent meeting with my boss he asked everyone to be more like a rhinoceros.  You can’t stop a rhino when it’s moving forward and you definitely can’t push it backwards.  It’s a situation that many of us find ourselves in.  A project or task runs into a small obstacle so we stop to…

  • Time Audit Surprise

    When you measure things you can manage them – Words of wisdom from Peter Drucker. Every time I have made the effort to measure something whether it be calories, carbs, miles run, heart rate, cash flow, net worth or weight there is always a surprise in what the numbers reveal. Recently I did a one…

  • Time Audit

    It can be eye opening to measure things for real whether it is calories or carbohydrates, or reps and weight, or cash flow and net worth.  Perception is a tricky thing and the spread between reality and perception can be wide. With that in mind last week I did an audit of every hour of…

  • Applying The Creative Writing Process to Software

    Grabbing the best ideas from other industries and applying it to your own is a fantastic way to learn and discover new ways to do things. I was listening to the Tim Ferriss podcast yesterday in an interview with Neil Strauss.  Two best selling authors discussing their creative process for writing a book.  It got me thinking…

  • too many computers?

    There are quite a few computers in the house. Heather has a MacBook Pro for herself I have a Macbook Air that I use most of the time and leave around the house In my office there is an old 2009 Mac Mini which is showing it’s age but mostly acts as a machine to host my…

  • Finding time to code

    Finding time to write code after work, when you have an eight month old and a full time job is nearly impossible.  I’m not sure how others manage to do this. It’s time to do an audit of my time management.  To figure out just where all my free time is going so that I…