Tweet this Episode Allison is a developer in the Washington DC area. She is a non-profit executive turned developer. She helps organize the RubyConf and RailsConf Scholar Program. She organizes a local meetup call Silver Spring Ruby. She works at Collective Idea.

The Rogues talk to Allison about being a mom in coding and work-life balance. They also talk about transitioning from non-profits to coding.

This episode goes into depth on:

• Prioritizing your family and still having a great career
• Goal setting, focus, and growth
• Team collaboration
• Contributing to open source
• and much, much more...

Links:

• Delayed Job
• Allison's Blog
• Baby Driven Development talk
• Rails Girls
• Ruby Dev Summit
• RSpec
• Minitest
• RailsCasts
• Interactor Gem
• Leah Silber from Tilde tweet
• Tilde article on Baby at Work
• Mother Coders
• RailsBridge
• Allison on Twitter

Picks: Eric:

• Gallup Strengths Test
• Metabase

Allison:

• Sticky Note Game by TableXI
• WriteSpeakCode
• Ruby Jewel
• Crystal DISC Assessment

Dave

• Rails Guides

Special Guest: Allison McMillan.