The importance of emotional intelligence

There’s some really good information and suggestions in this Emotional At Work? Science Says You’ll Be More Productive blog post. As the professional ecosystem becomes increasingly connected, however, and complex systems require a group effort instead of individual support, group dynamics of culture, emotion and behavior are proving to be the key to engagement, longevity, …

Microsoft.Data.Edm.Library

If you have experience dynamically generating entity models for OData I could use a bit of help with getting the finer bits of manually defining Navigation Properties. If not, do you know somebody who’s an Edm Goddess? For more details see my forum post in the ADO.NET, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, NHibernate forum: https://forums.asp.net/p/2085521/6022522.aspx?p=True&t=635912368648167847 …

You don’t know Javascript

Last month the Hanselminutes podcast had a great interview titled You don’t know JS with Getify (Kyle Simpson) about his book of the same name. While the book series sounds like a great resource, I really enjoyed hearing a constructive discussion of many of the concerns I’ve had about the rapidly growing popularity of Javascript. …

“Imposter Syndrome is the Wrong Metaphor”

Beth’s thoughtful Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome is the Wrong Metaphor is an important essay that digs deep into some of the most pervasive issues that plague not just tech jobs, but all employment in the U.S. I highly encourage everyone to read it – from the rank-and-file to the highest of upper …

Weekly roundup – April 28th

Topics: Free MS ebooks, Xamarin podcast, cloud server in 55 sec., squash your PNGs, Heartbleed fallout, RDP from Android.