What do you do when you feel overwhelmed and stressed? Sometimes life, work, responsibility and timelines can make you feel overwhelmed. Software development as a career can be VERY STRESSFUL. …
Writing a Software Development Resume – Part 2 Resume
Your first impression with any potential employer is your resume. My resume has been updated throughout the years but the structure of it has remained the same. The key to …
Jamaican Slave Register
I was doing some more research on my family tree and signed up for the Ancestry.ca world deluxe package that includes international records. I came across a collection that I …
Writing a Software Development Resume – Part 1 Cover Letter
I have had the opportunity to get a lot of help with writing my resume over the years. It started when I was in the co-op program in college. Before …
The Differences Between the 3 Genealogy DNA Tests
There are 3 main types of DNA testing used for genealogy: autosomal, mitochondrial (mtDNA), paternal yDNA. Each are great ways to find out information about yourself, but the collected data …
How I flunked out of University and Survived
I can truly say that I have been blessed to be a software developer for 10 years. the decade has flown by and my life has changed drastically in this …
FamilySearch.org – Where my Caribbean family search really began
It’s 2008 and I graduated from university. My degree is in Computer Science but, after being hyped up on genealogy series, I really wanted to know the names and stories …
Programming While Black
I was the only black person in most of the classes related to computer science. I grew up in Toronto, and if you know anything about this city you know …
5 Steps to becoming a Software Developer
This is not going to be an exhaustive approach to getting your foot in the door of software development. I have heard stories from several developers about how the got …
I didn’t know the names of my great grandparents (and two of my grandparents)
Most black people that are around my age, that I know, have no idea of the name of their great grandparents. Their parents never discussed their parents. Their grandparents, who …