3 Letter Acronyms
IoT
What is Internet of Things?
This technology domain leader misspelled their own middle name on their first driver's license.
Who is Al Heuring?
If our domain was the last member of a queue.
What is Front-end-of-the-line?
This search engine co-founder's name is synonymous with internet searching, he co-conceptualized "PageRank", the algorithm that powers Google.
Who is Sergey Brin?
Nerdery's Original Name at inception.
What is Sierra Bravo?
DRY
What is Don't Repeat Yourself?
One of the Nerdiest nerds, and a fixture of Nerd culture - if you've watched a Shout Outs video, you've seen his work!
Who is Mike Ross?
Redux in a cross platform app? Or if Facebook's famous framework never changed.
What is React Native state?
This acclaimed theoretical physicist is known for his groundbreaking work on black holes and the book "A Brief History of Time".
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Nerdery's three Founders.
Who are Luke Bucklin, Mike Derheim and Mike Schmidt?
TLD
What is Top-Level Domain?
This Nerd leads our Strategy practice - you might have seen her in a workshop, or around your meetings if you work on the Millipore project.
Who is Kendal Kaminski?
What The Lorax might say if he were defending the DOM.
What is I speak for the tree nodes?
This technological pioneer and co-founder of Apple also developed the first programmable universal remote control.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
Historically, an alternate title for every single employee at Nerdery.
What is Copresident?
ERP
What is Enterprise Resource Planning?
This Nerd is the current longest tenured engineer in Front-End.
Who is Nate Kinney?
The Viking's defense pays attention to this in their unit test reports.
What is Goal Line Coverage?
A mathematician and writer - they are often referred to as the world's first computer programmer due to their work on Charles Babbage's proposed "Analytical Engine"
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This item was launched into space by Nerdery.
What is a coin?
ETL
What is Extract, Transform, Load?
In high school, this key account manager, toured with a pop-choir in the US, UK, Southern Africa, Northern India, and Hong Kong.
Who is Adam Witter?
When a C++ package manager and two front-end meta Frameworks get alliterative.
What is Nix Next Nuxt?
Credited as one of the fathers of computer science, they played a pivotal role in breaking the German Enigma code during WWII.
Who is Alan Turing?
This is the location of the legendary Nerdery pool.
What is the roof?