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July 24th, 2021

Socializing a New Software Developer in a Brave Remote World

June 29th, 2021

Is Blitz.js the JavaScript Framework I’ve Been Waiting For?

May 25th, 2021

Team Building in Changing Environments

April 27th, 2021

Secure Application Development 17 Years Later

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July 24th, 2021

Socializing a New Software Developer in a Brave Remote World

As we optimistically look forward to more social encounters during 2021 and into 2022, it is highly likely that our software development teams will continue to work remotely most of the time. Meanwhile, the job market in technology fields is hopping, and attracting and retaining new employees is a challenge. Employment predictors are labeling this […]

June 29th, 2021

Is Blitz.js the JavaScript Framework I’ve Been Waiting For?

The year was 2007. I was about to leave corporate America and try my first startup. I had been a Java architect for the past 10+ years and was ready to try something new. A friend of mine introduced me to a framework called “Ruby on Rails.” She said it was amazing how fast you […]

May 25th, 2021

Team Building in Changing Environments

I have spoken with many clients of Solution Street and fellow colleagues at various companies who all have the same question, “How do you maintain your corporate culture when everyone is remote during COVID?” Many in the IT space already had this question prior to COVID as more and more companies were allowing their employees […]

April 27th, 2021

Secure Application Development 17 Years Later

The year was 2004. I was on stage at the yearly Java One conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. My friends, Karthik and Selva, and I were terrified as we looked out at the full room of over 1,000 attendees there to watch our talk on “You are Hacked – Ten Secrets to […]

March 25th, 2021

Improve Your Team 26 Times a Year!

Do you believe in the power of teams? Well, I believe in the power of the team, and what happens when teams embrace the retrospective – and what happens when teams don’t. Though its foundation is in Agile, the retrospective can be used by Agile and non-Agile teams alike to improve team morale, team collaboration […]

February 16th, 2021

Do Developers Have an Unfair Advantage in this World?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, I’m sure you have already been involved in some capacity with acquiring a COVID-19 vaccine, either for yourself or for someone you know. With my mother and my father-in-law in their 80s, my wife and I have been worried for them since the […]

January 20th, 2021

Passing a Certification in the Times of COVID-19

Java was my first programming language and I wanted to prove to myself that I could achieve fluency in it. So I decided that in 2020 I would take the Oracle Java 8 Programmer certification. Early in the year, I bought an exam book, mock exam programs, and scheduled my exam for August. I was operating […]

December 20th, 2020

A Software Developer’s Book Review and Summary of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

I love to read books. My go-to genres are fantasy, science fiction, murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and novels. I enjoy fiction more than non-fiction. Aside from reading technical books and articles, and perhaps a book on philosophy here and a biography there, I’ve mostly stuck with fiction novels. I wanted to change that. I wanted […]

November 23rd, 2020

RPA, Low-Code, SaaS/COTS, Custom – Which Is Right for You?

The year was 1994. I was working full time as a software engineer and going to graduate school part time to get my master’s degree. One of my professors told us that within the next five years, we will not be writing software with code anymore. Fourth Generation Languages (4GL) will make it so anyone […]

October 25th, 2020

5 Key Capabilities the Best Problem Solvers Have

Throughout my career, I have heard people say things like “He has a knack for fixing difficult bugs,” or “She has a knack for getting Ruby to work with OpenSSH.” The definition of “knack” according to the Oxford English Dictionary is “an acquired or natural skill at performing a task.” What we are really talking […]