We decided to split up our monolithic Ruby on Rails application at my company into a front end application written in React, and a backend API written in Ruby on Rails. I had a wonderful time extracting the API out of the old monolith. In fact I was so excited…

My company is currently trying to hire a senior JavaScript developer. It’s been two months and so far we haven’t even interviewed a single candidate. We posted the job all over the internets but have only received a few responses, and none from qualified candidates. We have an…

Today I was given early access to Flatiron School’s new online learning site Learn.co. I played around with it for about an hour and was very impressed. Here are my initial thoughts: Flatiron Is Free* I think Flatiron is now the first coding boot camp to open source…

I’ve been a professional software developer for 2 years now. I’m at the stage where I no longer consider myself a junior developer, and don’t need my hand held to do work anymore. While someone of my skill level may be considered called a ‘senior’ developer in…

For almost the past year, I’ve been part of a team at my company building a new web application. Because we’ve operated using agile methodology, we generally only do things very incrementally, building the smallest features or making the smallest adjustments one at a time. While there are…

I was very excited when Fog Creek announced that it was offering fellowships to female graduates of the Flatiron School. However, now that I've personally talked to some of the fellows and had more time to reflect on it, I'm more puzzled than anything. The idea behind offering this fellowship…