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This post came out of a tiny expression of gratitude.

There are a lot of choices about what tools are the best for the job, especially for digital design. Learn about cost, availability, and tactile tradeoffs for digital drawing with Wacom or Apple Pencil.

When interacting with Ruby devs, I’ve heard a lot of feedback along the lines of “I‘ve heard that pairing is supposed to be good, but every time I try to do it I get more and more discouraged”. Other devs I’ve talked to have lots of great experience pairing with their peers, but aren’t sure how to work with someone more or less experienced than they are. The goal of this talk is to prepare you so that pairing is not only something that you can do with any other dev, but something that you want to do with any other dev. By the end of this talk, I want you to be ready have awesome pairing sessions where you are energized and excited by working together with other devs to conquer your shared problems. Pairing is a fantastic tool for your professional toolbox: let’s learn how to design, discuss, refine, and refactor… together.

We built TSOMI in order to see the interconnections of people listed in Wikipedia. However, much of this data is missing or is incorrect.

Most projects have some previous code written. As programmers, we have to figure out where and when to refactor and how much is necessary to bring something up to the new standards. We inherited a D3 project from a few years back and went to work on refactoring some of the code. The project is called TSOMI, which stands for “The Sphere of My Influence”.