John Best @wintermute21
About: Experienced ASP.NET developer passionate about learning Software Engineering, being an effective team member, and carving out my own little niche in the world. I enjoy working with jQuery, AngularJS, C#, F#, HTML5, all the fun stuff. Love being a full stack developer. Always seeking to learn. Enjoy Agile teams. Scrum and Kanban are awesome. Always looking for ways to improve.
Location:
Elkridge, MD
Joined:
May 14, 2017
John Best articles - 5 total
On empathy (or lack thereof) in tech
Discussion on empathy in tech roles
What reference books should devs have handy on different CS subfields?
For example, databases, software engineering in general, etc
On coding challenges.
Is it worth it to do coding challenges or do they feed into a broken system?
On recruiting contractors and developers
Some thoughts on why current IT recruiting practices can be harmful and how we can improve
Building custom tooling with a new API, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love Sitecore
Building new tooling with an unfamiliar API isn't as hard as it sounds.