2016 Annual Review
It’s review time again! You can read my Asynchrony review from last year here. This year, I was again in the advocacy program, which meant that I had an advocate Read More …
Category: Software Development
What I Learned From My Last Team
I started on a new team this past week — I’m super excited because it’s a 12-week project in Swift. My last two teams were Ruby on Rails teams, and Read More …
Three years in tech
I’m almost at three years in the tech industry! I moved to St. Louis at the beginning of February in 2012. I started my first programming job shortly thereafter in Read More …
2015 Asynchrony Performance Review
This year, I was in the advocacy program at Asynchrony again. The advocacy program is different from the traditional review process in that you solicit feedback from your coworkers on Read More …
Roy Clay Sr. Web Development and Entrepreneurship
A couple months ago, I saw a couple of my friends tweet about the graduation of the first cohort of the Roy Clay Sr. Web Development and Entrepreneurship workshop. The Read More …
Software Carpentry in Hawaii
I got to go to Hawaii to teach a Software Carpentry class! Hawaii. How cool is that?! Apparently, three other people declined to go to Hawaii, and I got asked Read More …
Assumptions
The company I work at just got acquired by a bigger company earlier this month. As a result, we had a big celebration party at a restaurant nearby. I was Read More …
Paired programming is awesome! Paired programming sucks!
Paired programming: an agile software development technique in which two programmers work as a pair together on one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer, pointer Read More …
A talk, a ticket, and unexpected trust
A talk I gave a talk on my post From babies to software development: A quest to afford all the cupcakes. It was so nerve wracking to talk about something Read More …
Continuous Improvement: Work
Preface: Asynchrony (my current workplace) started a beta test of their advocacy program last fall. The advocacy program is “a program in which an employee guides a colleague in career Read More …