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.

vNext will be so much better

I’m an optimist for the most part. I stay upbeat and try not to let much get me down. I feel it’s important for a team to have a generally positive vibe as negativity breeds negativity and turns into a vicious cycle that’s difficult to break out of.     But where my optimistic side
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Apology Driven Development

Stop me if you’ve heard this. The company you work for comes to you and asks you to create a super simple, rapid prototype of a new product, or whole new version of an existing product.   “We just want to play around with it a bit, get these few features working end to end
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