This is the city, St Louis. I work here. My name is Rob. I write code. I carry a badge.
Lyndsey Padget. Learner. Public speaker. Writer. Badass. Lyndsey gave this incredible session at Devup this year called Badass 101. I’d never heard Lyndsey before but this won’t be the last time I attend a session led by her, I can tell you that much. This was different. Different in a very good way! It was … Read more Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Badass 101
After this year’s dev up conference in St Louis, MO I wanted to write my notes and thoughts here on my blog instead of just keeping them to myself (like I usually do). Sharing with the rest of the developer community … that’s in keeping with many of the speaker’s messages from the conference too … Read more Dev up 2018 – What you missed
Most days I leave all the programming stuff at work, where (for me), work belongs. I make it a point to not focus on work at home. Since I work for an employer, that effort I perform for them is to build someone else’s dreams. So I leave work at work, striving, never to let … Read more Learning for fun instead of “for the job”
Are you letting life just happen to you? The other day, I found myself at work, and every few minutes I would check my email. No reason really which I could think of at the time. Do a little work. Check email. Do more work. Refresh email again. Not a fun day really. If you’re … Read more How to Stop Letting Life Just Happen to You
Authoring code? What kinda title is that Mr. Horton? Yep, all of us who write code … we’re all authors. But perhaps that’s another post entirely. Today I wanted to jot down why I do this crazy little thing called code as well as how I got my start. Well, first this man and woman … Read more Authoring Code and Why I Do It
… or Who I’d Want to Work For. There is a person I want to work for and an environment I want to be in. Both of these are so hard to find. If I were a software manager, this is also the person I’d strive to be for my team, as well as the healthy environment … Read more The Best Job Description for a Software Development Manager Ever Written
I learned a ton at STLDODN this year. The conference name is changing for next year. It will be called DevUp. Not sure if it will be just that name or StlDevUp .. either one is cool by me. It’s a great conference and the fact the name is changing to make the conference a … Read more Soft Skills for the Dev World
Yeah I said it. Companies bigger than an actual startup, if you’re doing agile, just stop. Please for the love of the world, just stop. You’re likely kidding yourselves if you think you’re doing agile anyway. I have worked with small companies that are “doing agile” and I have worked at large companies that are … Read more For Non-Startups, Agile is Dumb, Go back to Waterfall
In my last post, we talked about “Are You Team A or Team B?” and ran through what those teams might look like. I showed the post to a friend of mine and he noted that I might be leaving some folks out. Maybe folks that are just looking to get on their first team at … Read more What If You Need a Team?
Today I wanted to talk a bit about team environments. If you’ve been in IT for awhile, having worked on a few teams, you’ll get where I’m coming from. If you’re still a bit green to the industry, take heart, for today I will explain the two main team buckets out there in our field. … Read more Are You Team A or Team B?