Webtrends Will Not Nickel and Dime!

Read more about our services and convention product releases over on web analytics world’s “Inside WebTrends Engage 2009: WebTrends Announcments” by Craig McLurg.

That’s a good pricing plan.  Strategies like this make me really dig working at webtrends.  I’m also extremely happy to be working on the team since inception for the web services that have been released today at Engage!  We have a lot of exiting technology in the works and this is just merely one piece!

Be sure to check out our new webtrends Developer Network also.  I’m on the site as a blogger acting as myself with a whole crew of great people that can help you make the most of the new webtrends web services API.

Be sure to check out Derek Fine’s “Welcome to the Developer Network” and for the info on our web services specifically check out my entry “Web Services & REST“.

Making a Solid Developer

I can’t help but wonder sometimes, what else besides those technical skills make a great developer.  What builds the character that makes someone obsessively chase being the best they can be?  What character builder helps a person find the path of opportunity to lead the pack and step away from the herd?

I once wrote years ago that a top notch developer often stays on the verge of being in trouble.  Such as in the developer is pushing the envelope.  I still mostly agree with that, but also one has to know when to and not to push the envelope.  Sometimes it gets a great developer fired, and by being so they’d probably become an even better developer from the experience.

I Gotta Be a Nerd!

Here I am on a beautiful Saturday and I?m watching a talk by Alan Stevens, someone I met at ALT.NET Seattle.  This guy has real passion for software development, but also has a strong passion for learning and getting better.  He recently had some talks that he posted on his blog Cave Markings in Coding in Public Slides and Video.  The second video is the one I?ve sat here, on a beautiful Saturday, and watched.  Absolutely great talk, he covers many points of how and in which way people learn in skilled occupations.  Definitely, if you?re interested in learning, worth a watch.  A few of the good quotes Alan pointed out, if you watch, these really stand out.

Normalcy is for advanced beginners.  Experts are weird.

?and the other quote that Alan brought up was?

Those who know do not speak;  Those who speak do not know.

Alan Stevens – Coding In Public from Scott Walker on Vimeo.