I had the opportunity to present Intro to Blazor at the Indy .NET Consortium last night. Here’s the video and presentation link for your enjoyment 🙂
Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r6h7cYdzRM
Presentation Link: https://we.tl/t-EnCpKYx8sa
From a recent LinkedIn contribution:
Be mission-focused and be prepared.
Pick – or at least know – your team ahead of time.
Delegate to those best suited.
If you’re also a contributor, delegate your weaknesses.
Make it about the Vision, the Mission, and the Team. Connect with your people. You can’t succeed if it’s not all three.
If the team believes in the vision and the mission, they’ll work to believe in you. If they already believe in you, they’ll trust your vision and work to make the mission succeed. Trust them to follow through. If you run into trouble, ask THEM why, not just yourself. Correct as necessary.
When you have to be a leader, it’s about Vision, Mission, and Team. It may be hard getting the hang of it. As you see success, it’ll come easier.
From a recent LinkedIn contribution I wrote:
Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate as if you were in the same office. Communicate and have a conversation immediately if work items / task descriptions are not clear. Don’t just @mention someone, then spin in your chair or grab coffee while waiting for them to respond. Communicate and participate in all meetings. Your camera should be on. 70% of communication is non-verbal. Communicate the way you would expect someone in the office, or standing across from you, would communicate with you. Don’t hold others to communication standards you’re not upholding yourself. That’s unfair. You’ve got this – now, go be a team player!
From a recent insight on LinkedIn:
Keep that camera on! A key component of in-person communication is reading body language. Remember, 70% of what’s conveyed in a conversation is non-verbal. An in-person conversation from behind a door is pointless, and silly. A video call is much the same. So, again, keep that camera on!
Some people say they can’t keep the camera on for various reasons (excuses). Kids. Improper clothing. Improper setting. That can indicate a lack of professionalism. It also can indicate a lack of interest. If people are truly engaged, you’ll see it in their faces.
What about keeping the camera off because it’s “not your turn?” Good question. Why are you in the meeting if you have nothing to add/listen for? Then have them call you in when they’re ready.
From my latest LinkedIn insight contribution:
There is no substitute for real experience. You can’t expect to be a star basketball player having only attended gym class. At the very least, you start with joining a team. It’s the same with software careers. You must experience real world software dev, with real world problems, and, well, real world people. Don’t be afraid of failure – that’s expected in the beginning. It’s the same pattern as everything else new you’ve tried in your life. Internships give you the real world experience, and are a crash course in the “Fail quickly” approach. Fail, then try again, knowing your team is there to support and correct you. That experience will translate directly into your first real job, and translate to increased earning potential.
A recent contribution I made on LinkedIn:
The act of looking for an internship is a great first step – good for you! There are many resources. First, check with your professors – they may know of open internships. Next, your school’s Careers or Counseling office. They know the sites most often leading to successful internship connections. Third, check known internship sites, like Handshake at https://joinhandshake.com/. Fourth, check out Meetups / Meetup.com. It’s often who you know, not just the little what at this stage in your career. Meetups help you create relationships in your industry of choice. Best of all, they’re free, and there’s often pizza, so you can have informal, less stressful, conversations. Good luck!
New features in Liq added today:
Check it out! https://liq.live and tell your friends!
Note that Liq is still in beta, so I need your feedback, please! Click the Features & Bug Reports link on the bottom if you want features, or find a bug. If there’s a bug, please provide reproduction steps and the page you were on so it can more quickly be resolved.
Liq, my new spirit collection and management website is now in beta! As a bourbon collector and enthusiast, this was a passion project. I wanted to be able to manage my collection AND my tastings, and share them with friends. Liq lets you do that easily, and you can hold live tastings with your friends. So all of you can join in and share notes, and recollect them later!
Check it out today! https://liq.live
Lots of awesome things you can do:
If there are features you would like to see, post them here.
From what I posted on LinkedIn recently:
You’re the leader. That doesn’t make you the MVP. Know your team and their skills. Sacrifice your ego and empower your team, giving “best chance of getting it done” tasks to those you’re sure can do it. Empower them with the decision making authority for their area. Of course you can override – you’re accountable to stakeholders AND the team. Empowered team members will reward you with greater productivity, because you believe in them, and that bolsters their belief in themselves. If you’re going to lead a team, lead the team. If you’d rather be a hero, go join another team instead.
Partially, yeah – automating the grinding tasks so we can concentrate on system design.
Greatly enjoyed this related article … long, but covers AI, bootcamps, getting started with code, and how it affects software development and the industry. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you/
And another video from the Indy .NET Consortium where we had a roundtable about this:
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