A common misconception a lot of new user group leaders have is that they need the perfect location for their user group. While that thought is partially correct, there are a lot of things to

Today, I really want to talk about email, because I see people everywhere having the same issue with email that I had. I used to be REALLY addicted to email. When I use to wake up in the morning,

Yesterday I had the pleasure of chatting with a gentleman about a potential mentoring gig. The way I like to approach these sort of talks is to determine high level goals. In this case, the client

One trait of successful user groups is don't play calendar roulette. Meaning: they chose a time or day each month to hold the group meeting. We meet every 2nd Tuesday. or We are the last

65 tests I have just hit a personal record when it comes to writing unit tests. A measly 65 unit tests. I've always noticed that there are three types of developers: those that never test, those

As a user group leader, you might have this feeling that you need to get sponsors for your user group. This is a common feeling! In fact, it's one of the most common questions I get as the

Update 1: Brandon pointed out a mistake in my math. Adjusted to reflect his comments. This is one of those posts that I have been meaning to write for a long time. As a consultant, I often find

On some recent work I was doing with Winsitter, I needed an approach that would systematically remove documents after a specified period of time within MongoDB. Previously, I would have written cron

When you're suggesting business decisions for a client, think about it this way: If you were to flip the roles, would you take the advice you are offering? Simply put: when I recommend tools,

Sometimes when you install a NPM package, you'll run into an issue like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets(35,5): error MSB8020: The builds