Archive for the ‘ Software Development ’ Category

Growing Pains? Try Retooling.

Growth is fun and exciting in a startup, but it can also be just a little painful and scary. Its scary because people can’t anticipate problems that arise from growth such as having customers, supporting them, answering their requests, and fixing the issues they experience with your product.  Or adding employees, training them, educating them on [ READ MORE ]

Why a CS major would want an MBA

I was initially a management major, but my college required one computer science class during our first semester. It was in that class, amidst loops and pointers, that I fell in love with programming. Soon, I switched my major to computer science. Now, I’m about to graduate as a software engineer, and I love [ READ MORE ]

Culture of Constraints

In 4 days it will be the 1 year anniversary of launching BizeeBee my second startup. When I started BizeeBee I was determined to put in place engineering principles that I hadn’t been able to at previous companies.  I also wanted to avoid a lot of bad practices that I had experienced throughout my [ READ MORE ]

Want more femgineers?

Looking back 21 years ago I never would have fathomed I would have become a femgineer or been involved in high tech.  At the age of 8 I had decided I was going to be a lawyer, writer, and professor because I loved to read, write, and speak.  I spent the next 10 years of [ READ MORE ]

Post-Launch Prep II

After launching BizeeBee I realized that my initial post on what to do after you launch your startup wasn’t enough to cover all the work that the BizeeBee team has done after launching and thought I’d share some of our efforts.  We launched BizeeBee about three weeks ago with a few yoga studios across the nation.  The [ READ MORE ]

Ruby Tuesday: Pitfalls of Prototyping in Rails

My last Ruby Tuesday post was pretty laudatory regarding prototyping in Rails.  In this post I’m switching gears and exposing the pains and limitations with Rails. The development team at my current startup is composed of engineers and designers, basically I make everyone on the team write code  I understand that Rails’ benefit is [ READ MORE ]

jQuery Basics

I’d been hearing a lot of buzz around jQuery and how much developers like it.  While I myself am not a front-end developer and prefer doing mostly back-end work in Java or Rail, after I saw jQuery in action at SXSWi I wanted to learn to code it in first hand. One of the reasons I [ READ MORE ]

SXSWi iPhone Insights

At the SXSWi conference this past week I attended a lot of great talks on iPhone applications that covered its user experience, development, and how to create apps that emulate the features of a native app but are quicker and easier to create. User Experience Josh Clark’s talk on creating apps that are “TapWorthy Applications” was one of [ READ MORE ]

Importance of an IDE

The first time I saw my VP of Engineering use Idea Intellij I feel in love with it!  All those shortcuts, a debugger, running a server, refactoring code, inserting exception handling, and the ability to do auto-complete!  I was coming from an Emacs, NEdit, VI background, which are all powerful in their own right.  I [ READ MORE ]

Ruby Tuesday: Debugging

When I was a freshman at Duke, coding away in Teer basement, I would often hear disgruntled engineers shout: “Damn, I’ve got 300 syntax errors, I left off the semicolon!  Why does everything have to be so exact?”  Those were the days of coding in C++, a language in which you had to actually compile, [ READ MORE ]