Hi. I’m Julie.
According to my LinkedIn and Careers 2.0 profiles, I have a lot of experience in a lot of things related to technology—and that’s true! I can build things, and I can build teams, and I can build teams who build things. My preference leans toward the latter these days, as I’m no longer the fastest coder in the west. I am, however, the fastest blocker-clearer in the west, so if you have blockers, let me clear those for you!
I’m also currently looking for work, having recently resigned from my position as EVP of Product & Technology at a small company in Washington, DC. So! If you are looking for short-term or long-term help reviewing and resetting your application or development infrastructure, or directing, managing, and mentoring developers throughout an Agile development process (especially for the first time), or helping you figure out just how to scale your technology, processes, and people, please contact me via LinkedIn or @jcmeloni. I am of the Spolsky and Rands schools of thought and practice when it comes to building product, businesses, and teams.
I’ve worked in web application development since 1994, and along the way I also warped young minds taught undergraduate courses in composition, technical and professional writing, literature, and digital technology and culture. Once upon a time I wrote some short-form stuff online; you might have seen some of my work in the late 90s version of Wired’s Webmonkey, or within the last few years at The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s ProfHacker blog (here’s a list of the more interesting posts there). And of course, I wrote these introductory-level books on web development (available in 18 languages, from Arabic to Chinese to Polish and just about everything in between), that you can see on this web site.
These days, I spend most of my time working, very rarely blogging here (but I’d like that to change), sometimes tweet, and spend a good deal of time on the StackExchange network.
My Books
The following are the most recent/most popular books I’ve written:
Sams Teach Yourself
PHP, MySQL & Apache All-in-One (5e)
ISBN: 0672335433, © 2012
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Sams Teach Yourself
HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One
ISBN 0672333325, © 2011
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Older Books
I’ve written several books over the years and almost all of them are out-of-date. If you find them on shelves (virtual or otherwise), I do not recommend that you purchase them—technology moves quickly and they are unlikely to be of much use. You can still see a list of older books if you’re curious.