November 2012
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Petition Your Employer to Close on HaloDay
Seriously, you know you’re going to call in sick anyway, so as tech companies, let’s just agree to close our offices on November 6. So many people called in sick when Halo 3 was released that Urban Dictionary added the definition Halo Day. Corporations feared the wave of suddenly sick employees, and who wants to put their companies through that kind of worry ? Instead, just get them to...
October 2012
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This Election Day, Being a Teabagger Comes Back in...
This November 6 marks an extremely important day and we all need to do our civic duty. That’s right, we’re talking about the return of Master Chief so you have a duty to play Halo 4… but before you do, you need to vote.
Why do you need to vote first? Well, it’s obvious you won’t take a break from teabagging some noob just to punch a ballot card. You’d probably like to pretend you’re that...
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Net Minds Tech Stack (Part 1)
by Alan Baker
The world of application development changes rapidly. If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that there’s never just one way to solve a problem.
Take technology and programming: non-programmers don’t usually understand this, but programming has soul. Application design has so many possibilities; even programming simple functions can be done in many ways depending on the personality...
September 2012
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Say Hello to Drew Purdy!
“He’s what we like to call Man Purdy…”
Drew joins us as our Javascript Spartan Developer. Hmmm… I see a pattern here. With Drew aboard, we have now been able to complete the Triforce of Javascript to ward off Ganondorf, I think he’s a .NET guy.
August 2012
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First official "How Not To..."
Arbiter here. As our beta launch begins to loom ever closer, this seems to be a good time to start revealing more of the inner workings and personalities that comprise the Net Minds DevTeam (codename: Stache 5, as in mustaches. For everyone. Even the ladies). Over the past few months, we’ve learned a lot - what to do, what not to do, best practices, not so best practices, how to properly bag...
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How to Ensure You Don't Get Help With a Bugfix →
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Say Hello to Tyree Pace...
and make her give us a fun title! Tyree, Javascript Developer, joined Net Minds in March 2012. She loves Halo and has pre-called in sick November 6. Yeah, and obviously, as with Maurice, we didn’t have a Tumblr account yet, so we’re announcing it now.
EDIT: Tyree is now the Net Minds Javascript Arbiter!
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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Say Hello to Maurice Rickard!
Maurice, Developer/Bit Wrangler/Special Ops, joined our team back in May 2012. Since we didn’t have a Tumblr account then, yeah, I know lame, we couldn’t announce anything….
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Calling all editors, designers, and marketers!... →
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