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There are preservation systems used by libraries that will continuously do what you're describing: https://www.archivematica.org/en/

Work on making people feel safe with the situation before asking for direct feedback. A few examples of how this could be done: Give them more than a few weeks to get comfortable w…

Digirati | Software Engineer (PHP) | Glasgow (UK) | Full-Time | Onsite We're a small (45 people) software engineering and UX consultancy with offices in Glasgow and London. We work…

I don't have a suggestion for an aggregator but ... I find Harvard Business Review to be my best source of management and leadership article, both the books they publish and the qu…

Make sure your acceptance criteria for the deliverables and definitions of done for each stage in your workflow are explicit. In future design your hiring test filter out candidate…

Theory of constraints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints

There's a number of excellent resources suggested in this post by others already so I wont repeat them. One unique thing about becoming a PHP expert is the contempt you'll occasion…

These are all valid points but many organisations are not at the level of maturity where the inputs to the engineering team are of the high quality you're describing. Additionally …

As a London based developer for BBCWW who grew up in Glasgow I can tell you this is definitely a good thing, the BBC is far too London centric.

Being in a similar situation to you I was grossly confused with Ruby until I ran update-alternatives, then things started to make more sense.

Just when you think there's a dearth of good jobs in Scotland you get a nice surprise.

Great links.

Thanks, that was an incredibly helpful link.

Challenge accepted, thanks for the answers.

I would quite happily preorder a copy of your book but there's not enough information to feel comfortable about parting with $39. Is this an ebook or in dead tree format? Do you sh…

I would add: Don't release on a Friday.