I enjoy puzzles–especially math and pattern puzzles. I have a collection of various Rubik’s Cubes that I learned to solve without referencing any guides. I’ve worked through several books of Sudoku puzzles along with other math and pattern puzzle books. [Read More]

A couple years ago, we invested in Luxafor flag lights for everyone on the team. These lights are attached to our monitors and we communicate with each other using them. If someone's light is green, they are "free" and you're welcome to drop by and interrupt what they're doing. If... [Read More]

During a recent code review, I gave feedback asking for code like the following to be refactored: function getPreferenceLevelText(companyName, companyPreferenceLevel, segmentType) { var preferenceLevel; [Read More]

I had the privilege of attending Øredev again this year; it was the first week of November. At the conference, I presented two sessions that were both related to my experience this year using Node and React for building Line-of-Business applications at Concur. [Read More]

While working through sample after sample for Node.js and React.js, I experienced a pattern that wasn’t very helpful. Instead of truly starting from scratch, the samples kept walking through step-by-step of cloning a working solution. They’d start with “Step 1: paste this fully-working code into this file” and “Step 2:... [Read More]