I'm really careful about labeling things bugs in the code. Because to me, a bug is a failure of a software developer to do their job. Their job is to write code to satisfy the given requirements. …

In boxing, imagining your opponent training harder than you before showing up in the ring and mopping the floor with your face is a nightmare scenario that you can use to motivate yourself to work harder while there’s still time to train. …

Feature Estimations are a Train Wreck — Estimations are usually wrong. They're time consuming and inaccurate. There are plenty of estimation strategies like t-shirt sizes, Fibonnaci numbers, and other weighting systems. Then comes the “poker planning.” The idea is that these humans are supposed to sit around a table, look at a piece of work and vote…

As a webdev team, we have several core values that help guide our decisions day-to-day. Here are a few examples: Tests or it didn’t happen A past refrain in internet culture when someone told an outlandish story is, “Pics or it didn’t happen.” We say the same thing here except for tests. Test provide 1)…

Rackspace’s Lesson for Managers — There are several great takeaways from Lorenzo Gomez’s, “The Rack We Built: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Creating Company Culture.” The advice most often mentioned though is: Everyone wants to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. According to Gomez, when you…

After reading some of Rob Parnell’s work, one notion stuck with me that has helped make much better use of my time , especially at home. The idea is that at any given moment you're either being a producer or consumer. You should evaluate your current actions every second and…

Intel, Google and many other successful organizations espouse using OKRs to guide their business strategy implementations. Here, we’ll get a basic idea of what OKRs are and how they are used in business and in life. Let’s start with an example: Say you are having a dinner party tomorrow night…

We've all learned that when setting goals, you want to set “S.M.A.R.T” goals. “S.M.A.R.T” here is an acronym for: Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time-Based All of these are great and should indeed inform your own goal creation strategy. …

Back when I was interviewing for my current role, the notion of calling yourself a Full-Stack Web Developer came up, and the interviewer asked me what I thought it meant. …