Articles by Laura Ku
Junior Jump Extended: Acts I – IV
For the past few Sundays a group of me and other C5’ers came into the office to work on BridgeTroll with a few junior developers. We hoped that BridgeTroll would get a few highly requested features, but mostly we really hoped the junior developers would get practice and pick up some good practices about TDD, …
I/O 2015 Thoughts
This year Google I/O was reported to have 23% women in attendance (which was up from 20% in 2014 and 8% in 2013). It was my second year attending Google I/O, and both times were through the Women Techmakers (WT) program, which is behind the incredible boost in numbers. It’s pretty rare to …
Introducing Junior Jump Extended
Hello, new developers! TL;DR * What: an agile team experience for new developers * When: 4 Sundays, July 19 – Aug 9, 10am-3pm * Where: Carbon Five SF office * Working on: an open-source project with C5 developers and designers * Using: Ruby on Rails * Learning: iterative planning, test-driven development, pairing * Application: Click …