Today, I’m going to make what will be, for now, the last post in the Expert Beginner series. I edited the first post in the series to add a blurb about this, but I’ve actually been working on compiling these posts into an e-book that will sell for a few Continue reading
A short post today–I’m still sort of in frantic mode and switching gears in a variety of ways, but I didn’t want to go the whole week with just the one post. Some time back, I observed some people working on a project in which the team consisted of some Continue reading
This is sort of an announcement post and sort of a meandering jaunt into my own personal journey. Also thrown in will be bits of apology, opportunity, and regret. So, let’s get right down to brass tacks. A few weeks back, I gave notice at my job. I had come Continue reading
Every week I get a fairly steady stream of emails from recruiters, announcing an opportunity for some software development related job: engineer, programmer, senior developer, architect, and so on and so forth. These emails come in all shapes and sizes and, probably owing to my eclectic, polyglot background, they cover Continue reading
I was defeated. Interested in getting off to a good start and impressing, I had overachieved in the course by working hard and studying diligently to make a good impression. And yet, when the first essay was returned to the class, mine had a big, fat B staring back at Continue reading
Over the course of my career I’ve done quite a number of technical interviews, and a pretty decent cross-section of them have ended in job offers or at least invitations to move on to the next step. That said, I am no expert and I am certainly no career coach, Continue reading
Do you ever open a source code file and see a method that starts at the top of your screen and kind of oozes its way to the bottom with no end in sight? When you find yourself in that situation, imagine that you’re reading a ticker tape and try Continue reading
Let’s say that in a green field code base someone puts together a type that conceptually is a collection of non-integer values. For the sake of discussion, let’s call it a graph. A graph object might store a series of two-element tuples or perhaps a series of some value type Continue reading
To start off the week, I have a satirical post about projects developed using the waterfall ‘methodology.’ (To understand the quotes, please see my post on why I don’t think waterfall is actually a methodology at all). I figured that since groups that use agile approaches and industry best practices Continue reading