by Shankar Poncelet | Jun 17, 2016 | Business Strategy, Marketing, Self Improvement
Successful People Agree The growth of a business and good communication go hand in hand. To be a successful professional you need to master the art of public speaking. Warren Buffett has insisted that the most important skill a person should enhance in order to become...
by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 30, 2016 | Personal, Self Improvement
The San Antonio Business Journal printed a very interesting article in this weekend’s issue. The article starts by informing the reader that About 22 percent of the nearly 30,000 San Antonio-area businesses with paid employees in 2012 — the most recent year for...
by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 18, 2016 | BLOC Apprenticeship, Design and Development, Self Improvement
This is blog post number 6 about my journey to becoming a software engineer. As an already experienced developer I was pretty much able to breeze through my assignments so far. Fortunately that changed a little bit recently. Why fortunately? Because I like being...
by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 7, 2016 | Design and Development, Self Improvement
There are several stages every web developer has to go through. For a long time one is just using other developers’ tools. You have no idea how many people are out in the wild, calling themselves web developers, and all they can do is install WordPress and...
by Shankar Poncelet | Feb 12, 2016 | Business Strategy
I first learned about the Broken-Window Principle when I read The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. The book is highly recommended to anyone who is interested in good coding practices. The Broken-Window Principle teaches that if you start...