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Step One: Watch Mary Rose Cook Live Codes Space Invaders from Front-Trends. (The second worst conference name ever?)

Step Two: Fork this gist.

Step Three: Respond to this question in your fork: What is one approach you can take from this Mary's code and implement in your project?

  • I actually had watched this prior to starting our project. It lead me to try to be hyper organized and structured with our project and until I got passed that and let myself write gross code first. I did, however, take the keyboard tracker concept from her game and implement it in ours (where it maintains a hash updating true/false values for the keyCode keys. We built more on top of it limiting which keys were recorded and implementing it over socket.io.

Step Four: Totally Optional: take a look at some of the other forks and comment if the spirit moves you.

Addressing Communication Gaps at Tech Companies

Development and Customer Support

Set up the topic

  • Intro with well-known "7 red lines" skit
  • Indicate that while it can be true, it's only half of the story
  • Brief overview of my previous company and position on a Customer Success Team

The Scenario

  • Walk through example issue that caused tension between Dev and Support