How 4Hero Programmed Goldie's Software

Sven Von Thülen interviews Goldie: “I had a lot of ideas and samples in my head and Marc and Dego would listen to what I said. We went into these intense…

Trader Joe's Says NO to Social Media

Alicia Eler on why Trader Joe's chooses not to maintain a presence on social media: If Trader Joe’s were to join social media and chat with consumers, would…

Onboarding: Show, Don't Just Tell

Some great advice on key elements to your onboarding flow: Offering users a structured set of steps to walk through helps reduce abandonment. Psychologically…

Prototype First

Nice post-mortem from Hipmunk explaining why Protyping is such a valuable tool: If you don't prototype your application before you start building, you're doing…

Technical Debt

Technical Debt. Whys, hows and whens. I prefer to be in control of a situation over acting in a reactive fashion. This leads me to make decisions in another…

Breaking Down User Stories

The objective that every sprint deliver valuable, working software, is not a requirement. It is a design principle of the Scrum process. Agile is not about…

Eldora Trail 10k

This weekend I did my second trail race of the summer, the La Sportiva Eldora Trail 10k. The course was at the Eldora Mountain Resort along the Nordic Center…

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First Trail Run of Summer 2009

This morning I completed my first trail race of the summer, the Evergreen Mountain Trail Race (I had planned on one earlier but decided to take more time to…

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Looking Back

So it seems appropriate to start off this new blog with a look back at where I've been and a look forward to where I'm headed. I recently graduated (May 2009)…