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Janel Brandon

Understanding environments

Even if you are new to software development, you may have heard about running your code in a development environment versus a production…

3 min readMar 1, 2021

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Understanding environments

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Janel Brandon

Understanding the PATH variable

You may have seen a message like the one below when you try to execute a file from the command line:

4 min readMar 27, 2020

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Janel Brandon

Setting up a python development environment

I’ve recently started becoming reacquainted with python after a very long time. I want to share a simple post on setting up an environment…

6 min readAug 3, 2019

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Setting up a python development environment

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Janel Brandon

Small project development flow

A lot of new developers work on projects — for class, for their portfolio, to learn, by themselves, and with others. Mastering a good…

4 min readJun 10, 2019

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Small project development flow

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Janel Brandon

How to get employed as a new developer

I’m currently a lead educator at Coder Academy, and I have been a software engineer for over twenty years. For a lot of those years, I led…

6 min readMar 24, 2019

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Janel Brandon

A guide for using WSL for development

I’ve always been a UNIX fan (and if I’m being honest, a bit of a Windows bigot), but I recognise it’s because my roots are in UNIX. I…

8 min readMar 17, 2019

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Janel Brandon

Problem solving like a programmer

Programming is fun, and also challenging. It’s easy to get caught up in the syntax and semantics of the languages and frameworks…

9 min readMar 9, 2019

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Problem solving like a programmer

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Janel Brandon

Put an end to impostor syndrome

Impostor syndrome. It’s reported that 70% of people suffer from it. As a woman who has worked in software development for more than 20…

4 min readAug 31, 2018

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Put an end to impostor syndrome

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Janel Brandon

Transforming the world with meditation

I meditate every day. Sometimes I formally sit in meditation, usually on my train commute to and from the city for work. More often, I…

5 min readAug 26, 2018

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Transforming the world with meditation

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Janel Brandon

Six things that make a great software developer

I’ve been a software developer for about 20 years. I’m not the best or the brightest, but I have had a successful and rewarding career that…

6 min readAug 19, 2018

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Janel Brandon

Janel Brandon

I have been working in software development for more than 20 years as a developer, sales advocate, teacher, certification developer, and engineering manager

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