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Notes from the Interview Front
Sadly, I won’t be sharing a bunch of funny anecdotes from my time on the interview trail. While that might be fun, there are some bigger trends that I wanted to talk about after having reviewed dozens of job descriptions and talking to dozens of people at one level or another over the month of…
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Front End Engineering Spectrum Poll Results
The results of my poll are in. Thanks to everyone who filled it out and shared it. It’s much appreciated and it gave me some insight into where we are in terms of roles, organizations size and maturity and, probably most interestingly to me, what we’re called on out business cards. Let’s look at the…
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Please Fill Out My Front End Engineering Roles Poll
As you may know, I’ve spent some time thinking about front end engineering at a higher level than just the code that we write and the technologies that we use. I’ve written about what we do both in terms of the flavors of front end developers that exist and in terms of the roles that…
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If You Want to Share Code, Please Add a License
This has come up a few times recently (example), so I thought I’d point it out here for all the world to see. If you’re sharing code on a blog, Github or anywhere else you think people might find it and want to use it, please license it in some way. If you don’t, it…
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My New Job
I’m late with this post. I’ve been busy! Finishing this post has been tougher than I imagined it would be. Starting a new job is tough enough, adding in two visits to New York, one to Toronto and getting ready for HTML5 Live have made it even tougher. I think I’m through the toughest part…