The software development industry has got a bit of a reputation. From poor personal hygiene to poor relationship hygiene to social awkwardness, how developers present themselves often stands in the way of them achieving their full potential.

Due to some recent events in BJ's life that have made him re-evaluate some of his goals for this year we've decided to look in on our goals and do a mid year review.

It's important to understand the grieving process. Not only is it part of being an adult but understanding how people process grief is also crucial to avoiding situations that make it worse.

In any field, there is a lot of hard-won knowledge that the more experienced attempt to impart to those with less experience. Depending on the field, these things may be expressed as old sayings, or laws. They typically aren't really hard and fast rules, but rather are general tendencies that have been observed over time.

If you regularly do software development in a higher level language, you'll eventually run into a situation where you have to deal with the sort of problems that higher level languages are built to avoid. These problems may cause application crashes, data corruption, or performance problems until you get them sorted out. Worst of all, your experience in the higher-level language can often work against you in a lower-level one.

No matter if you are a morning person or a night person or if you get up early or stay up late and sleep in you have to start your day at some point.

You need to keep learning to continue to grow. Old technologies, frameworks, and languages will change and grow to meet new needs and add new features. New technologies are constantly being built and put out for people to use. You don't have to be up-to-date on the bleeding edge tech but should keep up with the feature set in what you are using.

Dani Heileman is a marketing strategist, designer and front end developer who's working as the Marketing Director for Music City Code.

A lot of us would like to do more with our lives, but find ourselves getting blocked by our own laziness, lack of motivation, or simply not being sure which thing to do first. While these skills apply to your career as a software developer, they are also broadly applicable across your entire life.

Getting started can be a little intimidating, so it's important to go over the basic requirements to get started learning how to code through experience.