Ever since Caleb Cornman passed away, I’ve been writing and speaking on depression in the developer community. In April I visited Salt Lake City, Panama City Beach, and the Groupon…
Devs and Depression at MountainWest RubyConf
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Apr
02
Developers and Depression: End The Shame
This week I’m flying out to Salt Lake City to speak at MountainWest Ruby about depression in the software development community.
The first time I presented on this topic was…
Mar
25
Client Service Matters
When I started at Table XI five years ago, we had six employees. Back then, all of us were elbow-deep in client work everyday. If one of our clients needed…
Feb
25
Tech Tip: Master Your Appointments with TimeTrade
Meetings and appointments are a necessary part—some might say “evil”—of the typical workday, but trying to settle on times that work for attendees can be a tedious time-suck. Do away…
Jan
17
Tech Tip: 5 Easy Ways to Free Hard Drive Space on Your Mac
One of the many benefits of streaming media services such as Spotify, Pandora, Netflix, and Amazon Video on Demand is that you don’t need to store large video and audio…
Nov
27
In Memory of Caleb Cornman
We lost one of our guys last week.
On Saturday, November 17th, Caleb Cornman passed away. He was thirty years old, and had worked at Table XI for only two…
Nov
09
Do it for drivers. Do it for startups.
Uber figured out a better way to do private car service by using your smartphone to call a car, calculate distance, and pay. Chicago’s about to pass a law to…
Nov
06
There Are Not 24 Hours in Every Day
A few months ago, a blog post made the rounds on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time. Here are two assumptions that could have gotten you into trouble this week:
There…
Oct
29
Our Starter League Mentees
Table XI is proud to be mentoring three students from the Starter League, an intensive 12-week dev training program based out of Chicago’s exciting new tech incubator, 1871. In addition…