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RR 327: Hack Your Workday to Maximize Learning with Allison McMillan


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Allison is a developer in the Washington DC area. She is a non-profit executive turned developer. She helps organize the RubyConf and RailsConf Scholar Program. She organizes a local meetup call Silver Spring Ruby. She works at Collective Idea.

The Rogues talk to Allison about being a mom in coding and work-life balance.  They also talk about transitioning from non-profits to coding. 

This episode goes into depth on:

  • Prioritizing your family and still having a great career
  • Goal setting, focus, and growth
  • Team collaboration
  • Contributing to open source
  • and much, much more...
  • Links:

    • Delayed Job
    • Allison's Blog
    • Baby Driven Development talk
    • Rails Girls
    • Ruby Dev Summit
    • RSpec
    • Minitest
    • RailsCasts
    • Interactor Gem
    • Leah Silber from Tilde tweet
    • Tilde article on Baby at Work
    • Mother Coders
    • RailsBridge
    • Allison on Twitter
    • Picks:

      Eric:

      • Gallup Strengths Test
      • Metabase
      • Allison:

        • Sticky Note Game by TableXI
        • WriteSpeakCode
        • Ruby Jewel
        • Crystal DISC Assessment
        • Dave

          • Rails Guides
          • ...more
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