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Comment on Agile Adoption Challenges: The Four Stages of Learning by Nirav Assar

Nirav Assar — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:55:17 +0000

The most difficult and the most dangerous state is this. Unconcious Incompetence with the added mix of unwillingness to acknowledge uncconcious incompetence, which often leads to dismissal of ideas. In other words, some people have no idea that they dont know anything, and they dismiss ideas based on their false assumption that they know everything.

Comment on Coder to Consultant: 5 Steps to Build Social Awareness by jacob.orshalick

jacob.orshalick — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:51:57 +0000

Yes, exactly. Thanks for the insightful comment.

Comment on Coder to Consultant: 5 Steps to Build Social Awareness by Nirav Assar

Nirav Assar — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:46:37 +0000

These are great points. I think what you are getting at here is being a social person has its benefits. Pretty much if you have technical aptitude, that is good. But if a client or manager knows someone who is technically skilled AND a good friend or easy to get along with, they will lean towards that person. This is simple but overlooked at times. Even though we are in a technical field and in a world of 0s and 1s, relationships matter! Great way to bring this to the forefront.

Comment on Coder to Consultant: 5 Steps to Build Confidence by Rama

Rama — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:06:08 +0000

Thanks for the great tips!!!

Comment on Coder to Consultant: 5 Steps to Build Confidence by jacob.orshalick

jacob.orshalick — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:42:32 +0000

Definitely a good point on “dress for success.” This is going to be part of a follow-up post about social awareness, but I can certainly see how this would help to boost confidence as well.

Regarding technical writing, that’s a great point. Perhaps I should add a fifth dimension to becoming a consultant: confidence, social awareness, persuasiveness, ability to negotiate, and credibility.

Comment on Coder to Consultant: 5 Steps to Build Confidence by Nirav Assar

Nirav Assar — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:28:01 +0000

This is great tips. You could also add in “dress for success.” even though we are in a technical field, software requires business to continue. And business is driven by perception and professionalism. Proper dress attire can only work in your favor.

Another stepping stone would be technical writing. This could be slowly building a portfolio within your company on an internal wiki. Blog on technical tips, designs, coding snippets or whatever. Then you can take the next step of creating a blog. This incrementally gives creditibility to your ideas and forces you to think through a position of idea so it is presented properly. This can go a long way in terms of leadership.

Comment on Mobile Grails at Dallas Techfest by google

google — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:59:11 +0000

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Comment on Mobile Grails at Dallas Techfest by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:44:38 +0000

Thank you. Keep up the good work.

Comment on OSGi: What modularity can do for you (part 1) by Satish

Satish — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:52:39 +0000

Very nice article!

>>this allows helpers like Spring-DM to proxy the PaymentService that will force the >>org.jboss.seam.example.booking to wait should the service go down.

is this proxy feature specific to Spring DM or part of the spec? In the picture you showed that authorizePayment() method is put on hold until the service comes back. What if the service goes down while control is in the authorizePayment() method?

Is it safe to deploy bundle updates in production servers w/o removing them from taking live traffic?

Comment on Serving up JSONP from your JAX-RS Web Services by jacob.orshalick

jacob.orshalick — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:09:01 +0000

For those looking for a more complete implementation of the filter, have a look at this article. Thanks jholtzman.