In Episode 11, we bring you two great blog posts by Jay Fields.

1. The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers

2. Thoughts on developer testing

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Episode 10 brings you, you guessed it, Jeff Atwood again. Sometimes I wonder where we (this show) would have been without Jeff Atwood's permission to use his thought provoking blog posts. Check out these posts used in this episode.

1. Paying Down Your Technical Debt

2. Who's Your Coding Buddy?

3. The Bad Apple: Group Poison

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More of Jeff Atwood in Episode 9. We have all made programming mistakes. Some serious and some not so serious. One thing to strive for is that you are learning from those mistakes. Jeff's recent post lists the Top 25 dangerous programming mistakes that should be avoided when bulding applications.

And here is the direct link to the post. Each mistake is briefly summarized but I urge you to click the links in the post to get additional insightful information

1. Top 25 Dangerous Programming Mistakes 

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Episode 8 brings you Jeff Atwood's 3 great posts from 2004 and 2005. Although it may seem like something from the past, the ideas presented are as relevant today as they were then.

Here are the direct links to the blog posts used

1. Don't Be afraid to break stuff

2. Good Programmers get off their butts

3. The Reality of Failure

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In Episode 7 we bring you more of Jay Fields.

Being part of the right team with motivated team members who pull their weight, makes the difference between winning and losing. Between great success and abject failure. The 3 posts featured here reflect Jay's views on what kind of teams he would like to build.

Links to posts used in this episode

1. Elitist or Optimist

2. Elephant in the server room

3. Developers needed, hackers need not apply

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