"[W]e trust each other. We can argue and fight and disagree, but we're going to step onto the court and cheer for each other." - Coach Pop Growing up just northwest of San Antonio, becoming a fan of the San Antonio Spurs was pretty much a given.… Continue Reading 'The Best Fight'
Note: It's been a while since I originally wrote this. Nowadays I use WebdriverIO and WebdriverCSS. If you're interested in learning those tools, I've got a free short course available at http://learn.visualregressiontesting.com Over the past four years, I've learned the hard way about how painful it can… Continue Reading 'Easy UI Regression Testing with Wraith and TravisCI'
Greetings Merry Andrew, Upon seeing your most recent actions, and viewing your days work, My heart begs to ask this question Could it have been Peter Pan, coming to your window and sprinkling some dust, flying you to Neverland, to valiantly attack Hook and his grown up men, where freedom… Continue Reading 'Greetings Merry Andrew'
About a year ago, on this date (Aug. 4th), I started a series of posts title "0% Productivity". The idea is to call out specific behaviors that ensure things don't get done. Here are some past posts: 1: Treat work in a Last in, First out queue 2:… Continue Reading '0% Productivity Tip #4: Reward hard work instead of smart work'
It may seem like a contradiction, but sometimes setting too specific of goals will bind you in and make achieving a target too difficult. Instead, setting a vague goal allows you the flexibility needed in order to achieve it. For example, as a parent, finding time and energy to exercise… Continue Reading 'Don't set too specific of goals'
In "Coaches, not Managers", I wrote about the importance of giving feedback. I didn't go into detail on just how to do that, because I felt it was worth its own post. It's easy to say that you should be giving more feedback, but its dangerous to leave… Continue Reading 'Giving Meaningful Feedback'
"It's the coach's job to make judgments and be critical about players." - Gregg Popovich Amidst the celebration and noise of the Spurs championship celebration, a scene was captured on camera between Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard and Coach Gregg Popovich. In their embrace, you can hear Kawhi telling… Continue Reading 'Coaches, not Managers'
One of the biggest values I get from working on side projects is the unexpected discoveries made that can be applied to my full-time job. This is one of the reasons I've stopped caring so much about "completing" these projects and instead have focused on simply enjoying the… Continue Reading 'Resolving Data in Angular'
One of the hardest parts about frustration is how addictive it is. While there a tips and tricks to being less frustrated with situations, a lot of times being frustrated is a "happier" state than getting down on yourself about complaining too much. As easy as it is… Continue Reading 'Overcoming Frustration'
Note: This is part three of a three-part series titled "Developers in the New Age of the Web" You can't have your cake and eat it to. You can't ask front-end engineers to be creative and curious but bind them down with beurocracy. Look at education. How many… Continue Reading 'Cultivating Front-end Engineers'
Note: This is part two of a three-part series titled "Developers in the New Age of the Web" As I mentioned in 'The New Age of the Web', JavaScript is a world between two disciplines. I also mentioned that JavaScript isn't just JavaScript. It's also HTML and CSS.… Continue Reading 'Front-end Engineers'