Professional Development 05/18/15 – 05/24/15

Software Development

• On Bad Code
• How Pair Programming Really Works (pdf)
• Inattentional Blindness
• Web API Design by Shawn Wildermuth (~2 hour video)

Mentoring

• Never Judge a Programmer By Their Commit History

Career

• The Mythical Man Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. (book)
• The Wrong Way to Get People To Do The Right Thing
• When You Should Quit a Startup Job

Process

• Forget Design Documents
• Appeasers, Crusaders, and Why Meetings Usually Suck
• Optimize Your Candidate Experience to Make Higher Quality Hires
• How to Build a Stronger Team When You’re Not the Boss
• Fixing Engineering’s Loyalty and Longevity Problem