Author: Shawn Jackson

I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.

Be a Catalyst Developer for Good

I read the article by Zachary Forrest y Salazar on DICE titled “Be a Catalyst Developer” and shared it with a few of my coworkers. Minus the slam he made regarding C# developers and their ability with CSS/HTML/JS it overall was a decent article. The gist of the article “don’t just blindly implement features or
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High Impact Development

It’s difficult when you have a new project, a port/rewrite, or working on a major new feature for a project to stay on track and on course. More often than not developers tend to get side tracked during development on things that, at the time, seem super important and vital to the success of the
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In Project Development Context Switching

Most developers are acutely aware of context switching. Your working on a new feature in a sprint when the business comes to you with a urgent production bug from last release. You have to switch contexts from what your working on, remember what your did last release and figure out the problem. That’s a pretty
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