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A Dash of Humanities within a World of Science
Having been in the industry now for 8+ years, I learned some time ago that a colleague's school and degree become less relevant over time, that great developers come from all backgrounds, that engineering ability is not correlated…
The Hubris of Front-End Developers
A colleague pointed me to an interesting article by a senior Yahoo front-end engineer. It goes through what companies need to do to hire "great FE engineers", that A developers are attracted by other A players but…
Our Money's Worth
I was listening to the last episode of the This American Life podcast, and they were detailing how a company called Journatic was basically outsourcing newspaper articles to the Philippines. Now, they were previously an under-the-radar content company,…
The Care and Feeding of your Front End Development Team
At the start of the year, I highlighted what I thought was the formula for getting and developing front-end engineers. To summarize, it's a combination of: identifying the right traits, cross-pollinating developers from disparate disciplines, and…
The Importance of Degradation
I never caught onto Pandora/Last.fm/Spotify online music craze. A combination of: * a lack of connectivity (commuting on the BART), * quizzical music tastes (with a soft spot for Asian pop), and * a obsessive tendency to listen to the…
Fragments of the Web
With Apple's introduction of the Retina-display-equipped Macbook, we're starting to enter a transitional period in display resolutions. As usual, Apple's leading the charge while keeping things simple via pixel doubling, but much…
