~/jaredthenerd · 2012 – 2023
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- StirTrek slides and examples Just a quick update from my JavaScript Spaghetti talk at StirTrek: My slides are up here Examples can be found in my Facebook For Cats repo on GitHub here Thank you...
- What Makes A Good Developer? There’s (hopefully) a good title to get attention. I’ve been spending some time thinking about this lately. Part of being involved in the hiring process at HMB is...
- Moving On Today is my last day at Facio. That fact is a bit bittersweet. I’ve spent the last 18 months working alongside wonderful people, building a great product for our...
- Code Geeks vs Stuff Geeks I’ve realized that developers exist on a spectrum between code geeks and stuff geeks. Code geeks are those who really enjoy the elegance and challenge of creating new...
- So You Want To Be A Technical Speaker? I speak at a pretty good number of events (and am always considering more… hit me up) and really enjoy doing so. At Codemash this year I had a few people mention...
- Getting Started With Backbone.js Backbone.js is one of those wonderful technologies that is flexible enough to let you solve problems in a variety of ways. It’s also one of those horrible...
- The Myth of Unit Test Value I’m writing this blog post because someone on the internet is wrong… [](http://xkcd.com/386/) More accurately, I saw an old...
- Starting a New Development Conference On August 3rd, 2012 we held the first edition of the CloudDevelop conference. We had a great turnout (150 or so attendees), great sponsors, and relatively few...
- JavaScript Spaghetti Video My talk from Code PaLOUsa 2012 is now up on InfoQ here. Listening to part of it reminds me of how awesome the audience was there. The slide deck I used that day...