Bootcamps, bootcamps, bootcamps… They’re everywhere, and everyone has an opinion. On one end of the spectrum are the hard-skeptics. The hard-skeptics believe that bootcamps are selling snake oil–it’s impossible to teach what they claim in three months. If you went to a bootcamp you were a victim. On the other end of the spectrum are the evangelists. In their view, the fact that software engineering bootcamps work proves one of their priors: traditional education is broken, bloated, and corrupt....

So you want to start a podcast, eh? In this age where anybody can fire up a computer, easily edit some audio and then publish it onto the Internet, it’s almost as common to have a podcast as it is to have your own blog. But let’s face it, a good number of the podcasts out there just suck. They’re painful to listen to, they’re dull at best and that’s if you can even find them to begin with....

With the end of the pandemic (hopefully) in sight, most of us are eagerly waiting to go “back to normal,” but there are some things that maybe might never go back to the way they were before. It’s interesting to think about what habits of pandemic life could or should remain with us after things have returned to normal. Will we continue to enjoy the calming power of frequent walks around the neighborhood?...

5 lessons I’ve learned working from home for 10 years After a decade of remote work, I still love it. 1. Make your home office a place you like One of the greatest benefits of working from home is that you can decide what goes in your workspace. You’re going to spend a lot of hours in that area, and many of them are likely to be stressful, so it should at least be a space that allows you a little bit of enjoyment....

Let’s face it, good marketing campaigns using LinkedIn are hard to find. It is the most popular business social network yet there aren’t many examples of good LinkedIn business marketing campaigns. LinkedIn does have a useful resource of success stories from individuals that use the site for networking or job seeking, but I wanted to delve a little deeper and find case studies that show how LinkedIn marketing can be done a little differently, both for large and small organisations....