Writing technical requirements
Who should write requirements? Everyone! Some of us developers feel as though it should be the job of a business analyst, project manager, or tech lead to write technical documentation. I'm here to...
View ArticleCSS Puzzle - Episode 1
Preface I've been working for Vodori for almost two years now, and I've come across some crazy CSS puzzles. This one is no exception. Process Our experience design team (known internally as the "XD"...
View ArticleBullet-proof Development
What is "Bullet-Proof Development? My definition of Bullet-Proof Development: a method of building components for the web in a way that can accommodate most contexts outside of project-specific...
View ArticleUnderstand your client and their goals
At my time at Vodori, I went through phases of developer maturity. I started out relying on my coding chops to get me through my tasks. This was, as you could imagine, very short-sided. I drowned very...
View ArticleVodori Retrospective
My departure I've had a great run here at Vodori. I've been here for a year and change. My role evolved from "markup producer" to nearly full-fledged "front-end developer". I even tried my hand at...
View ArticleCommunication over Coding
Being a developer is more about communication than about writing code When I worked at Vodori, I found that as I progressed as a developer, I was spending more time consulting, writing requirements,...
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Developer Productivity
I've been writing code for nearly ten years. I'm still pretty slow, and I still have trouble writing code for more than three hours at a time (unless I get really motivated). The one thing I have...
View ArticleFinal Day at Vodori
Today is my last official day at Vodori. I'm feeling the rush of support from my co-workers as I embark on the next part of my journey. This makes it all the more bittersweet for me. Being a Vodorian...
View ArticleWorking in a Large Scale Application
I was lucky enough to be part of my first large-scale, international, fully responsive webapp while working at Vodori. Not only did I learn a lot about my own craft, experimenting with different media...
View ArticleDesign Patterns and Objects with LESS
There's no shortage of posts about preprocessors, and more specifically about LESS. Now that I've been working with preprocessors for a few years now, I feel good about sharing the features that I...
View ArticleCSS Puzzle - Episode 1
Preface I've been working for Vodori for almost two years now, and I've come across some crazy CSS puzzles. This one is no exception. Process Our experience design team (known internally as the "XD"...
View ArticleBullet-proof Development
What is "Bullet-Proof Development? My definition of Bullet-Proof Development: a method of building components for the web in a way that can accommodate most contexts outside of project-specific...
View ArticleUnderstand your client and their goals
At my time at Vodori, I went through phases of developer maturity. I started out relying on my coding chops to get me through my tasks. This was, as you could imagine, very short-sided. I drowned very...
View ArticleVodori Retrospective
My departure I've had a great run here at Vodori. I've been here for a year and change. My role evolved from "markup producer" to nearly full-fledged "front-end developer". I even tried my hand at...
View ArticleCommunication over Coding
Being a developer is more about communication than about writing code When I worked at Vodori, I found that as I progressed as a developer, I was spending more time consulting, writing requirements,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Developer Productivity
I've been writing code for nearly ten years. I'm still pretty slow, and I still have trouble writing code for more than three hours at a time (unless I get really motivated). The one thing I have...
View ArticleFinal Day at Vodori
Today is my last official day at Vodori. I'm feeling the rush of support from my co-workers as I embark on the next part of my journey. This makes it all the more bittersweet for me. Being a Vodorian...
View ArticleWorking in a Large Scale Application
I was lucky enough to be part of my first large-scale, international, fully responsive webapp while working at Vodori. Not only did I learn a lot about my own craft, experimenting with different media...
View ArticleDesign Patterns and Objects with LESS
There's no shortage of posts about preprocessors, and more specifically about LESS. Now that I've been working with preprocessors for a few years now, I feel good about sharing the features that I...
View ArticleNew Gig
After about a couple weeks being settled in back home in Michigan, I was able to land an amazing contract. I can't say right now who it is, but I will say that I never expected to be working on an app...
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