I’ve been working on a project at work for over a year now. We have a great team, lots of interesting ideas, and a fairly good balance of support and independence from the company at large. We are also well versed in agile development, conduct lots of user research…
I’ve been in upstate New York for a few days now. This was originally supposed to be my summer vacation. I had gotten a bit stressed, and anxious to get out of the city, so spending a week hiking, trekking, and just being outside seemed like a good idea…
I’m going on a week long hiking, camping, and yoga adventure in The Catskills next week with some friends. I first had to go to Connecticut to pick up my car, as we will be needing it pretty much everyday next week. I normally go to Grand Central and…
I heard about AirPair, a service that provides on demand remote pair programmers, at last years RailsConf. I was very intrigued, but it wasn’t until this weekend that I had the perfect excuse to try it out. I started working on a project with an aggressive timeline that used…
I started blogging a year ago. I had considered blogging for many years previously, but held back for a variety of reasons. I was overwhelmed with so many of the decisions that went into building a blog: How often would I blog? What would I blog about? What static pages…
Hawaii recently became the first state in the nation to ban smoking for people under the age of 21. While I absolutely despise smoking and can appreciate the public health benefits the law aims to achieve, ultimately I am against this law because it discriminates based on age. Currently high…