Selling Yourself: Why? and How! I know many good developers who are under the impression that they either don’t have to sell themselves, or selling themselves is wrong, but is that really true? First let me clarify by defining what I mean by “selling yourself”. I don’t mean “selling out”, I mean marketing yourself, what you’re doing and what your skills are. Especially to your organization. I don’t need to sell myself, my code speaks for itself. Really? The only person who can recognize the quality of your code is another developer of equal or greater talent. As a professional developer you have to consider your audience. It’s wrong to sell myself, it is politics, I don’t do politics, I just write code.
If it’s so wrong to do, how come so many of us do it when we are interviewing for a new job? How about the politics of it? I think there is also a large difference between tasteful marketing of a product or service and offensive or annoying marketing. There is a right or good way to market yourself. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Fifty Ways to Take Notes. I am constantly writing notes. Whether it be for my blog, work, meeting, new ideas, or just basic notes, I am always jotting something down. So I started thinking about all the services I’ve used for taking notes and thought it would be a good idea to share them with you and while I’m at it, to make a list of any others that I find. Now, when it comes to note taking, I personally look for quick and simple. If I have something on my mind, I don’t want to go through some advanced system and climb a mountain just to save a note for myself.
There won’t be all the note taking tools out there on my list, but ones that I feel get the job done well. Quick Public Pages Using a quick public page service, as I call it, is my favorite method of saving notes on the go. ShortText – Fill in your text, click save, and you’ve got yourself a permanent url to a text note. Basic Note Taking Quick public pages aren’t really made for note-taking, although they work really well for it. Like this Article? Add Evernote to Windows' Send To Menu. TimeCamp - Automatic Time Tracking App. CmapTools - Documentation. The CmapTools documentation is organized as a Knowledge Model composed of concept maps and associated resources, constructed with CmapTools itself. The following is a categorized list of the Cmaps in the Knowledge Model, for direct access. Home Cmap for the Site Home Cmap of the CmapTools Web site General Descriptions of the CmapTools Toolkit Root Cmap: General Description of Software General Description of the Network Architecture of CmapTools Description of the Various Collaboration Features of CmapTools The Views: Storing and Organizing Cmaps and Knowledge Models on the Network, plus History and Favorites My Cmaps: Storing and Organizing Cmaps and Knowledge Models in your Computer Automatic and On-Demand Generation of Web Page versions of Cmaps User IDs and Passwords for Identification during Collaboration and for Permissions Specific Collaboration Features of CmapTools Synchronous Collaboration: Two or more Users Editing the Same Cmap at the Same Time (Concurrently), with Chat.