“How many times have you been to a party and someone asks: ‘What do you do?’ ‘Where are you from?’ ‘Oh, how do you know them?’ So I give you the 10 tips to avoid small talk with people and get an interesting conversation…”

“How to do smart software development even when facing impossible schedules? Say you’re the lead developer on a small, five-person team. You’ve been working for weeks on a project, and the team is just starting to jell. Your team members range in experience from a senior architect to a junior programmer just out of school. Then your boss calls you in and tells you the senior vice president was just on the phone chewing him out, and he wants your project done yesterday.”