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  • Better Know A Developer: Sandi Barr, Aviture

    Better Know A Developer: Sandi Barr, Aviture

    “I think the biggest misunderstanding about being a developer in general is this stereotype that we’re really shy and don’t have to interact with people. That’s just completely the opposite. I work on a team where we split things up into very small tasks, so we’re working really closely together. There’s a lot of communication…

  • Better Know A Developer: Jeff Hale, Agilx

    Better Know A Developer: Jeff Hale, Agilx

    This is the first in our series Better Know A Developer, in which we go behind the scenes at some of the Midwest’s best startups. This week we met with Jeff Hale, CTO at Agilx, in his office at the Nebraska Technology Park in Lincoln.

  • Des Moines activist creates program for refugee children to learn to code

    Eight years ago on a cold winter morning, Nancy Mwirotsi walked into a local hospital to assist with an interpretation and discovered a woman with two sons, neither of whom were wearing a jacket. So Mwirotsi took action. She drove to Walmart and bought each of them one. As it turned out, the woman and…

  • Idiot Learns to Code: 5 Javascript things Codecademy doesn’t teach you

    (Guest post by Frank Merchlewitz) A list post! Hooray! It was only a matter of time before I created some good old-fashioned clickbait. Let me start by saying I love Codecademy. I couldn’t have gotten to the level I’m at now without their introductory Javascript course. But as any good web developer will tell you,…