Looks Good, Works Well

Bringing change in teams is hard work. Bringing change to organizations is hard work. Bringing change to compananies is really hard work. And almost impossible. Bringing change is about persist...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/bringing-change-to-life/

When we starting using Trello for candidate tracking , we were highly motivated to have it handle all our communication and workflow for candidates. > @trello  why > isn't there a simple...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/understanding-notifications-in-trello/

As we started the new year, we have changed the way we do recruiting at PayPal. We create an always active pipeline based on a few key profiles. We have also started aligning our engineering prac...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/using-trello-for-candidate-tracking/

Back in the mid 80's after we had finished writing GATO for the Macintosh , I took some time to explore the underbelly of the Mac. One of these times I discovered that a single M68k operation de...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/elegance-of-macpaint-code/

If you haven't discovered James Mickens then I have a treat for you. James is a Researcher in the Distributed Systems Group at Microsoft and writes hilarious articles under the moniker ;LOGIN: L...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/james-mickens-is-the-dave-barry-of-software/

2014 is a great time to join PayPal. With our move to NodeJS and the release of our open source KrakenJS code base, we are rewriting and redesigning all of our experiences -- all on NodeJS. P...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/application-engineering-hiring/

During the week of Dec 9-15th over a half billion lines of code were written for the hour of code initiative by over 20 million people. This got me reflecting on my own original "hour of code"...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/my-first-hour-of-code/

I am excited to announce that I have moved my blog from Blogger to Ghost , a NodeJS blogging platform. BACKGROUND In 2005 when I started the blog, the easiest thing to do was to snag a blogsp...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/new-home-for-my-blog/

My team in PayPal Austin is hiring. We are looking for user interface engineers that can span the stack from node.js up to backbone.js. As part of the change we have been bringing to PayPal, our...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/hiring-in-austin/

In a most unlikely place. We have unleashed the Kraken.

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/fluent-talk-releasing-the-kraken-clash-of-the-titans-nodejs-paypal/

I have discussed in the past that we have been on a mission to change the culture, technology, process and experiences at PayPal. 15 months into my adventure here I have never been more excited....

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/key-position-sr-uie-manager-for-our-wallet-team/

Don't judge a book by it's cover (or it's website ... or it's poster ). Especially true in this situation. David Agan's book "Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elu...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/indispensable-principles-for-debugging-book-recommendation/

One of the first things I did when I joined PayPal was rename the "webdev" to "User Interface Engineering". Now while there is nothing wrong with the title web developer, at PayPal webdevs were c...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/user-interface-engineering-disciplines-skills/

Started keeping a list of these tools. No particular order. Creately http://creately.com/ Axure RP http://axure.com/ InVision http://www.InVisionApp.com Mockingbird https://gomockin...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/list-of-mockupprototyping-tools/

I really enjoy Silicon Valley Code Camp . Lots of speakers, lots of local attendees. Very informal and always a good crowd. No different today. Really engaged audience. One topic I covered was h...

https://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/lean-ux-agile-development-rationalizing-the-two-methodologies/