Nathan Pennington

Sep 30, 2015

Locating and Retaining Good Developers. Like Finding Bigfoot?

More and more often I’m hearing something similar from hiring managers at software companies and agencies. The search for talented… — More and more often I’m hearing something similar from hiring managers at software companies and agencies. The search for talented developers is hard. Even harder, is keeping them. I’ve read numerous articles on the web around what companies need to do to keep people. I can agree with a lot…

Development

9 min read

Sep 6, 2014

The Great JavaScript Migration of 20__

Have server side languages reached their prime? — I remember the first time I made a database call from a PHP page. At the time I was great at html, knew a few bits of Jquery and was getting better at CSS. I couldn't do any logic however. So while working at a big company with lots of…

4 min read

Mar 25, 2014

Attack of the programming languages and frameworks.

“Help! I can’t make a decision on what to learn” — Rarely does a week pass when I’m not asked if I've seen some new JavaScript library or framework. Actually, some of them are new and some of them have been around for a while. A friend will tell me he has just completed a project using a particular technology stack…

3 min read

Mar 19, 2014

Why Front End Developers should be married to the UX Team.

A word of advice for Front End Developers — I do about 90% front end development. I’ve done some php development and am loving node.js and JavaScript MV* frameworks such as AngularJS. They give me the opportunity to build applications instead of just websites and remain in JavaScript, a language I am oh so familiar with. I favour programming…

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