So. I just had an interesting conversation with a manager here where I work (the place I program for, not the place I do counseling) which started with the question, "Hey, Siderea, do you have any hungry programmer friends ( Read more... )

If you happen to be a master at Ruby -- by which I mean a highly fluent, productive, meticulous, and inspired coder of applications in Ruby -- for the web, are interested in contract work in the Boston area, and are available in the short-to-medium term, now would be an excellent time to happen to send me your resume. I'm just sayin ( Read more... )

Hey, team, I'm shopping for web hosting for a project at work. Any of you have hosting companies you want to promote to me (whether your own or ones you've used) or warn me off of? Here's the spec of what we need ( Read more... )

I've hit the wall. Or the wall's hit me. I slept for 11.5 hours last night, and I still feel like I can barely stay awake ( Read more... )

So v. tired. V. productive day @work. My pm mtg canceled, but got a request for a consult which turned out to be v. cool. Gave employer CMSms; there was some rejoicing. Also, new SMEs report enjoying learning my application ( Read more... )

I got a mailing from the Project Management Institute and/or ASPE Technology (their branding is unclear) about and upcoming Agile Project Management training in our area. Since we've been thinking that getting some of our managers some Agile Project Management training might be a very good thing, so this is potentially timely. The instructor is ( Read more... )

'nother ( Read more... )

Today I had to be in to work early for a meeting, and the rest of the day was meetings, too. Am v. tired, in part from staying up too late reading research for class on... wait for it... yes, sleep and insomnia. Well, there's my USRDA of irony for the month ( Read more... )

Six.

Hour.

Meeting.

*guh*

P.S. And another hour of informal chat after.

I am so tired there are no words.

Note to self: share eyezmaze Grow w/ cow-orkers. Story: Turn off site, turn on site.

OK, as some of you know, I've been helping to hire some web design/production workers at my job. As part of this I've been interviewing people and reading other orgs' Craigslist ads and so forth.

So, right now I have a real good sense of the state of the labor market (at least here in Boston) for these things ( Read more... )