Category Archives: development

cool girls code

Cool girls code.  It’s one of the awesome t-shirts that VMware is handing out at college recruitment fairs right now.  It can be hard to get credibility as a female software engineer, and that pink shirt is a reminder to … Continue reading

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lessons from a long career

At every geek company that I’ve worked for, most people send out a good-bye email to their team when they’re moving on.  Today, one of my colleagues from my previous team posted a going-away mail from someone else who’d been … Continue reading

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guest appearance on the Angry Mac Bastards podcast

Somehow, John Welch suckered me into doing a guest appearance on the Angry Mac Bastards podcast with him, Darby Lines, and Peter Cohen.  I jumped on the bandwagon this week, mostly to have the opportunity to talk about the recent … Continue reading

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feedback and constructive criticism

In response to my blog post about taking feedback, Bryan started off with the following: Reading your post about how some developers can’t take “constructive criticism” or as you wrote, “feedback,” I view “feedback” as a superset of “constructive criticism”. … Continue reading

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on taking, and giving, feedback

Remember “The Daily”?  It launched in February.  It’s a subscription newspaper for your iPad, commissioned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.  The main UI is a carousel, allowing you to flip through the pages of the paper to get to the … Continue reading

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loaded words matter, so listen up

John Welch pointed out an article from Justin Williams, an independent Mac/iOS developer, about how ‘Useless’ Is a Loaded Word.  Williams opens up with this: Here is a tip for all the non-developers out there. When you email your favorite … Continue reading

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