Jesse Randall Warden

This is a checklist of items you need for an all-encompassing personal branding strategy. Personal branding is the process of marketing and selling yourself as a brand in order to gain success in business. Personal branding is a continual process just as knowing yourself is a continual process. As you grow, so does your brand. The need for personal branding arises from the fact that globalization has increased competition in the workplace. As the wheat is separated from the chaff, if you are left standing, you are left standing with others of good caliber. The playing field is no... (more)

Agile Chronicles #3: Branch Workflow

This entry is about utilizing branches for each developer in Subversion, Merge Day, and how while cool, it’s an ivory tower process. Note: This isn’t a tenet of the Agile methodology itself, it’s just something that works well when you have a bunch of developers collaborating together rapidly, and a specific workflow our client requested we follow. Branch Workflow We’re utilizing a Branch... (more)

My Website + Google = My Online Identity

I just got an e-mail from a recruiter of sorts. They want me to do phone Flex/Flash consultation for a 20-40 minute paid phone call. Apparently, Ether (www.ether.com) could make money if they employed some sales teams. It seems all of California is reaching out worldwide, looking for people to come to live and work there. The reason? To be tech lead in their startup and manage contractor... (more)

Jesse Randall Warden's JesterXL Blog: Binding in the Trenches

It's 7:50 pm on Sunday, and I'm still working. I figured I'd share why I'm debugging like crazy instead of relaxing. Bindings. For those of who know of Flex 2, Adobe's tool for programmers to create Rich Internet Applications, it has this one feature that sets it apart from Flash, and incidentally, its brother Spry shares. It allows you to put a variable surrounded by curly brackets, and... (more)