Lindsey MaddoxPostgres Query Techniques every Backend Developer should have in their ToolkitEver tried to assemble a thorny data calculation for a data migration and couldn’t figure out how to fit the pieces together? It’s…Oct 26, 20182Oct 26, 20182
Lindsey MaddoxAn Introvert attends her First Programming ConferenceIt’s the morning of my first programming conference, and things are not at all going to plan. I was supposed to finish my Python data…Jun 29, 2018Jun 29, 2018
Lindsey MaddoxStarting over again: A developer’s (first) year in reviewAs I hit my one year anniversary as a developer, it seems appropriate to reflect on how far I’ve come. My last year has been alternatingly…May 24, 2018May 24, 2018
Lindsey MaddoxStumbling Toward Programming: A Chronic Career Switcher’s TaleI didn’t start programming because of some dramatic turning point in my 40s or 50s. I more or less stumbled into it after years of hopping…Apr 14, 2018Apr 14, 2018
Lindsey MaddoxKibana in the Headlights — Getting Familiar with the Elastic Stack’s Visualization LayerMy team at Arcadia Power just started using the Elastic Stack(5.6) for some of our logs. As part of this adventure, I’ve been thrown into…Sep 25, 2017Sep 25, 2017
Lindsey MaddoxGetting Started with Active Record Querying: Part IIIHi again. In this final post, we’re going to review a more advanced use of Active Record — subqueries.Aug 23, 2017Aug 23, 2017
Lindsey MaddoxGetting Started with Active Record Querying: Part IIHi again. Welcome back to our discussion of querying in Active Record. In Part I, we talked about joining tables together. Joins are the…Aug 14, 20171Aug 14, 20171
Lindsey MaddoxGetting Started with ActiveRecord Querying: Part II was an analyst before I became a programmer, so I have a pretty good handle on SQL. Nevertheless, during my first few weeks as a…Aug 10, 2017Aug 10, 2017
Lindsey MaddoxThe Real Story about Learning to Code in your 30sIf you’re looking for a shiny, happy story about becoming a software developer, this isn’t it.Jul 21, 20172Jul 21, 20172
