Posts tagged with Work
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…
Joining Square
Square is a happenin' place right now. We're apparently one of the hot startups in the valley, with general good press and happy users. I'd like to think what we're through now is…
Modern Site Engineering
Whew. A few weeks ago, we released our new Square and Card Case apps. Alongside the new apps, the front-end web development team spent a long two, three weeks to launch a new site worthy of our revamped product…
Startups are about Passion
It's been an exhausting week. My first week as a software engineer at Square has me collapsing on the couch nightly. Though the first few days are always stressful and daunting - startups especially so - it's a…
Understanding Code by Transcription
As most programmers know, as systems grow in complexity, more time is spent reading rather than writing. Enhancing a body of code, fixing bugs and issues, refactoring and moving pieces around, or simply just using a library or framework all…
Social Exit
This is a post I wrote a little over a year ago onmy old blog, but still resonates with me and its contents are relevant to this blog. It's not plagiarism if you copy from yourself. Well, it…
