A flowing discussion with Neil about the life of a contractor, before during and after, with some important mental health lessons hard learned along the way. Neil shares advice for people at every stage in the contracting journey, from tentative first steps to options for going beyond contracting, along with his own journey. Neil: https://www.neilm…

David kindly had me on as a guest on his wonderful "just 5 mins" show to talk a bit more about outside-in-testing and answer some of his questions after my last episode on this show on the matter. - Just Five Mins! Episode 78 - Outside in Testing with TimAv Tim Abell

A follow up to my blog post on test automation - with an angle that I think is missing in so much of the software industry - outside in fully automated tests from the perspective of the user is THE most important thing - plus don't let your tests see your internals, not even for setup and teardown. (01:53) - automated tests blog (05:20) - axiom 1 -…

timwise.co.uk/2024/01/13/new-tool-sln-items-sync-for-visual-studio-solution-folders/ justfivemins.com (David's podcast) buttondown.email timwise.co.uk/subscribeAv Tim Abell

https://timwise.co.uk/2023/10/20/use-kdiff3-for-merge-conflict-resolution/ https://timwise.co.uk/2023/10/20/git-what-do-'base'-'local'-'remote'-mean/ https://timwise.co.uk/2023/09/28/what-is-hexagonal-architecture/ https://timwise.co.uk/2019/10/14/merge-vs-rebase/ https://timwise.co.uk/subscribe/ https://github.com/rustworkshop/gitopolis/tree/3a8eb…

- beware fast talkers, as Ray Dalio says in Principles https://www.principles.com/ (as a tweet: https://twitter.com/RayDalio/status/1599056902637248514 ) - beware pattern obsessives (any pattern, architecture, SOLID, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Outside-in testing, you name it, someone wears it as a badge) - evolve your architecture - YAGNI, but do think …

Morning journaling Sunsama daily planning app Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham Right to represent idea Airtable for making forms and surveys Send me a voice message (may be included in the next show) Let me know you listened!Av Tim Abell

* Read "Working Identity" for career change https://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Identity-Unconventional-Strategies-Reinventing-ebook/dp/B004OEIQ7C * Maybe not an agency business... * The contract market is recovering * Yak Shaving - https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ * Trying to build a SaaS in one evening with NoCode (fail) * What's [not ver…

Tim is going to do more digital delivery (contract), while defending time for building useful things for podcasters and being involved in that space, all while being good at email and being a great family man. This episode was livestreamed with video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcWCdVrbTE https://savvycal.com/articles/inbox-zero/ https:/…

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companies house snafu De-fusion of the mind with ACT (A liberated mind) Rich-dad cashflow gameAv Tim Abell

Out at the lake with the dog. Empathy for coding being hard to learn.Av Tim Abell

From yesterday's morning live stream experiment https://youtu.be/S4rHehuG3SEAv Tim Abell

David explains what systems integration really means when it comes down to getting things connected, and what things we are trying to connect in the first place.Av Tim Abell

Where has software been? Where is it going? Integration is the new hotness & problem to be solved.Av Tim Abell

A little story about two little steam engines racing to the next station. You'll have to listen to find out what this has to do with software.Av Tim Abell

GTD Book list for the children, and life Refactoring and legacy code Failing to start xchain in 2015 doglost.co.uk @tim_abell - message me if you're listening!Av Tim Abell

Tim was David Gisbey's assigned mentor at DfE. They discuss with the benefit of hindsight what makes for a good mentorship relationship. David Gisbey (on LinkedIn)Av Tim Abell

David & Tim improve each other's mental health with some unstructured chit-chat. Being unfixable nerds of course we still cover technology and some useful tools. • https://www.realvision.com/grant-william-keynote-speech • http://danielamerman.com/va/ccc/G4SecBear.html • https://financialmentor.com/ • https://blog.trello.com/gtd-getting-things-done-…

David and Tim just a have a catchup to keep sane in isolation. They discuss lessons learned from 2 years at the new DfE Digital including how to migrate platforms well, and how to do personal backlogs in the basecamp-shapeup style instead of a single backlog of doom.Av Tim Abell

As posted at https://podcast.ditchinghourly.com/episodes/coaching-call-with-tim-abell - reposted with permission. https://jonathanstark.com/Av Tim Abell

Tim talks (rambles?) about the challenges of getting contributions to schema explorer now that it's open source, and about some things from his trello board of business ideas. https://timwise.co.uk/subscribe/ + https://jonathanstark.com/resources + https://www.betterhelp.com/ + https://sunnylenarduzzi.com/best-online-business-plan-2020/ + https://m…

Tim explains what he's learned about Shape Up! and David asks questions - https://basecamp.com/shapeup - https://timwise.co.uk/2019/11/26/time-to-shape-up-your-scrum-process-the-new-thing-from-basecamp/Av Tim Abell

Update on schema explorer https://schemaexplorer.io/ and introducing https://just5mins.transistor.fm/1Av Tim Abell

Duncan, David & Tim go a bit deeper into the outsourcing experiment, share a bit more about themselves, and learn about David's new role.Av Tim Abell

Tim goes solo - talks about the show title and a first adventure in outsourcing.Av Tim Abell

Introducing David Sheardown (@davidsheardown on twitter) and Tim Abell (@tim_abell) as they talk about their journey so far and try and figure out who they can help with a podcast and other services on a product ladder. Things we mentioned: - http://schemaexplorer.io/ - Zero to One on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/…