Sally felt terrible. She had been an engineer at the company for three solid years and always performed well. Over the last year, she began to think about her career growth and knew that the next step was to be promoted to a senior position. She had pushed herself so hard to make sure the work… [Continue Reading]
Multiple Domains for Your Site in Apache
This’ll be a small guide for those of you managing multiple domain names for your site or blog. Say, for example, your domain name is, grandmashirelyshow.com, most likely you’ll also want thegrandmashirelyshow.com, and you might even own the .net and .org version too. Now you have all these domains, but you just have a single blog… [Continue Reading]
Google App Engine and WordPress Guide
Google App Engine seems like a great choice for setting up a WordPress blog, and because I wanted more experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) I gave it a try. My overall assessment, however, is that App Engine isn’t the right choice right now and you’re better of using Compute Engine (or Container Engine) for… [Continue Reading]
Move to the Front: Overcoming Shyness at Work and Life
Countless times during my early undergrad days, I found myself being too shy to ask questions during class. It hurt me academically, and caused me to have to spend way more time researching things that a simple question to my professor would have answered. What if he already went over that point? I found myself… [Continue Reading]
Making Your Team Great Again: 5 Disciples for High Effectiveness
Fred decided he was fed up working with his team members. If he just did it himself, he wouldn’t have had to go back and make so many corrections. He liked the other guys—honestly, he did—but after all these weeks, they were just starting to annoy him. Teams are just not very effective sometimes, he… [Continue Reading]
Say My Name: Networking at Work
I had scheduled a meeting with our then CTO as an intro to help me better network at the company. As I sat in his office—feeling very nervous, mind you—I quickly tried to find a topic that would win him over. We spoke a little about the projects I was working on. Eventually I went into… [Continue Reading]
You’re an Introvert?
The world is divided into two camps, introverts and extroverts, and this categorization defines who we are—at least that’s what we’re lead to believe. If you were to survey a group of average Americans, and ask who would make a better leader, an introvert or an extrovert, hands down you’d find the majority saying extroverts… [Continue Reading]