Today The Flatiron School announced a new free 8 month web development fellowship. I'm super excited for the school, for the NYC tech community, and most of all for the 64 people whose lives are about to be fundamentally transformed because of this opportunity. 1. Flatiron Got Another Huge Grant…

Last week I talked about some of the challenges that developers face when finding a job. While there are real challenges for finding a developer job, they pale in comparison to the challenges companies face finding good developers. Here are some of the difficulties I've run into when trying to…

I've been on both the hiring end, and the job-seeking end for technical positions. A lot of attention gets paid to how hard it is for companies to find good developers, but not as much on the challenges that developers face in finding a job. Here are some aspects of…

Here's how I envision it: Companies offer 3-month-long apprenticeships to new coding bootcamp grads. Companies pay the coding schools a 'referral fee', and each apprentice gets an $8,000 tuition refund for completing the internship. The environment is fully agile with daily stand-ups, pair programming, pull requests, code reviews, and…

Coding bootcamps have EXPLODED over the last few years. Here is a quick look at how they cropped up, and where things are going from here. The problem Tech companies have an extremely hard time finding software engineers. When I was running my own software startup, we found it almost…

“The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.” -Theodore Roosevelt I’m a thinker. In just the last week I thought of a handful of new ideas, spent hours…