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The Flying Developer Eats His Own Dogfood

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There’s a term in the software industry called ‘Dogfooding’, or “To eat one’s own Dogfood”. It refers to the practice of using the products you develop. The term was coined in 1988 when:

“Microsoft manager Paul Maritz sent Brian Valentine, test manager for Microsoft LAN Manager, an email titled “Eating our own Dogfood”, challenging him to increase internal usage of the company’s product.” – Wikipedia

I’ve been at Shopify for the better part of a year now, so I thought it was about time that I engaged in some dogfooding of my own. The result has just gone live: The Noble Pony

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New Job – Shopify

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I’m proud to announce that I’m starting a new job in May: I’ve accepted a Developer Advocate position at Shopify. This will involve doing all sorts of crazy work on/with their api, including helping people develop top-notch apps for the Shopify app-store.

You might be able to tell that I’m pretty damn excited about this, but I’m also sad that I’ll be saying goodbye to the good folks at Apption that I currently work with. They’re a stand-up company and I’d recommend them to anyone looking for a solid tech job in Ottawa.

The Flying Developer Has A Job!

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I have a new job! This means that instead of being gainfully unemployed, I now get to spend my time working on Gazaro.com. I’ve not worked in a start-up before, and the atmosphere is a refreshing change. There are no clients to deal with, no stifling management to report to and tonnes of new technologies to learn. To give you an idea, here’s a list of all the new stuff I’ve worked with since I started there last week:

  • Python
  • Google App Engine
  • Google Protocol Buffers
  • Google DataStore
  • Amazon’s SimpleDB
  • Django templates
  • Git

Feeling that my skillset was stagnating was one of the reasons that I left my last job, so being exposed to so many new ideas and methods is perfect. That’s all I have to say on the matter right now, but I’m sure I’ll have updates over the next weeks and months on any cool stuff that I do while I’m there.