Somehow the majority of my vacation got taken over by my obsession with building a side project. While it may seem like a waste to spend my vacation doing the exact same thing I do at work (coding) - it's actually been a great experience. I've learned a ton and…

I’ve been on a 2 month binge of programming video tutorials. It started over the holidays when I watched 40 hours of tutorials in a 2 week period. I felt very empowered with the new knowledge that I was able to acquire in this brief period, and put it…

My two weeks of working remotely all on my own came to an end today, when everyone came back into the office for the first time this year. Although I enjoyed my time out of the office, it was nice to be back and get back into the swing on…

I ended up making a ton of progress on a side project recently, and was super excited about the quality of code I was churning out. What's really amazing is how far I've come recently in my skill as a developer. Earlier this year I was pretty proud of building…

This weekend I dove into a side project that I conceived of over Thanksgiving. The goal is to explore the Twitter API, and figure out a way to find interesting new people to follow on Twitter. I probably spent 20 hours coding and got really really into it. I have…

Pair programming is part of the DNA of my company. We brought in Pivotal to help build the company’s first product a few years ago (before I joined) - and have been a pairing friendly environment ever since. For the past few weeks though, we’ve been trying to…