Published: 05/29/2020
Welcome to my first real post in 2020. This is hybrid post, part post, part video and part notes. I’m writing this as mostly notes for the students at Redwood Code Academy; I’m giving a demo for a friend of mine, Abdul.
Published: 05/29/2020
This is a long over due post. I had many hopes for Pro Dev Mentor. I had many plans of what I was going to say, sell and do. But then I lost my job then was thrown into the world of consulting. I spent 50-60 hours a week for a solid year developing software to manage software. It felt recursive. Then this blog really took a back seat. I’ve let AdamBourg.com and Prodevmentor.com sit, Pro dev has expired and my own site has site idle for years. It’s a waste really.
Published: 05/02/2018
It has long been my dream to be my own boss, set my own schedule and travel the world. I often dreamed of the idea of being able to work from home, make money and set myself free from the open workspace or cube farms of the office world.
Published: 05/01/2018
Installing Kotlin on Windows can be difficult, hopefully this guide will help you.
Published: 04/16/2018
Recently at work, I tasked myself with building a new test automation suite so we can start to refactor the application with low risk. One of the challenges is to ensure that performance does not decrease as we make the code higher quality.
Published: 04/12/2018
In JavaScript land I’ve discovered a neat tool to help you parse JSON easier and faster. I’m going to give you a sample of a JSON, I need you to parse the JSON and give me a array of all students names.
Published: 04/02/2018
My new job has taken me to interesting new adventures. This job has introduced me to the fun of trying to get Node.JS and other open source tools to work with the latest versions of Windows.
Published: 03/30/2018
It’s been a little over a month since I last blogged, and an eventful month it has been. During my absence I rediscovered the joys of searching for a new job, and that’s what we’re going to talk about today.
Published: 02/19/2018
I love testing. I’ve always been a big fan of testing, but in the last 5 years, I’ve seen a lot of really terrible tests written. Today I’m going to explain to you the levels of testing I believe are most useful.
Published: 02/16/2018
Most meetings suck. The person running them doesn’t actually run the meeting. They’re collections of random people unfocused, collectively wasting time for little or no purpose. How do we make meetings more effective and not waste time?
Published: 02/09/2018
I love retrospectives. They give the team a chance to reflect, to learn, and to really bond. Our retrospectives are the highlight of my sprint. I love doing them. Our format is quite different than you would expect from a typical scrum retro.
Published: 02/04/2018
Today, I just finished the book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport. I listened through Audible and I have to say it’s extremely remarkable in terms of how it affects my career thoughts.
Published: 01/22/2018
For my big rewrite project I’m working on, I decided it was time to start referencing modules by an alias instead of a relative or absolute path. It has a bunch of different modules, from the Redux store to an API service that almost every component or action consumed in some way. Figuring out the file path to the store or other common services was a chore.
Published: 01/11/2018
Today we’re going to look at Redux. Redux is a popular tool to use with React. We’re going to explore the topic and talk about why you should consider using it.
Published: 01/03/2018
It’s a new year and many of us will soon set then forget our new year’s resolutions. One of the challenges I have personally is to maintain a grateful and content attitude. In this field we get to experience some of the best perks of the modern life: the internet, building cool stuff, working for cool companies, and cool rewards like big paychecks.
Published: 12/20/2017
Your manager has asked you to review a stack of resumes and pick a couple candidates that you think are worthy of an interview. What do you do? How do you decide? When you get to interview people, what are the approaches you can take to do it effectively?
Published: 12/19/2017
Welcome to Pro Dev Mentor! I’m Adam Bourg. I’m a software engineer with more than a decade of technical experience. I’m currently working as a team lead building the future of TV. I am passionate about building and supporting Agile teams to deliver high quality software. As I began working in the field, I noticed the lack of software engineering professional development opportunities beyond how to work with the trendiest technology.
Published: 03/17/2017
Published: 03/17/2017
I’m a big fan of command line tools, I live by the command line, I do my job by the command line. I hate with a passionate fire, copying and pasting text. When I switched to Jekyll for my blog, I decided I needed a command line tool to generate the blog posts in the correct format so I can get layout, title and the correct file name structure.
Published: 03/16/2017
Welcome to my new blog running on github pages with Jekyll, Switching from Wordpress to this for the easier content management and no hosting feeds.