This is the first interview in an ongoing series of mini-interviews with famous developers and programming authors.  Rebecca Heineman has kindly agreed to be the first interviewee. She has been a games programmer for almost 30 years - she has written and designed many titles over the course of her career including a Bards Tale […]

A programming portfolio can showcase your best work and your highlight your involvement in challenging projects. It provides a great way to show your achievements, not just talk about them. A portfolio provides an interview with much more insight into your work experience than a resumé alone could give. A memorable portfolio will help you stand out from a sea of other candidates.

In the first post in this series, I talked a bit about different indicators of job satisfaction and how you can rank your own job for each of those criteria. In this post I’ll list simple steps anyone can take to improve personal job satisfaction in each of these areas: quality of projects, work-life […]

Are you satisfied with your job? Are you satisfied with where your career path is taking you? These are important questions, and I try to take time to think about this every 6 months or so. Its usually trivial to make a general statement rating job satisfaction: “Yeah I like my job.” […]