I’ve long been a fan of the Pomodoro Technique and recently I was looking to restart using it to focus my work. However, I ran into some problems finding the right tool for me. Below you’ll see how I solved this problem and maybe this walk through will help someone. …

A couple practical tips — I recently had a couple of coding mentoring sessions on the same day about the same topic — frustration. Here are some of the specific questions that I heard: How do I deal with frustration? Is there a way to avoid it? Do I have any advice for people experiencing…

Beginning to Code — Article 1 — A few weeks ago, on a whim, I posted a message on Twitter offering free mentoring sessions to anyone who was interested. I wanted to help people who were just starting their software development journey. …

This article is for anyone who wants to stop hacking on regular expressions and spend the few minutes to truly understand them so that you can write them correctly on the first try and won’t be guessing anymore. 100 years ago in Internet time (aka 2004) I wrote an article…