I recently posted about why you shouldn’t take interview rejection to heart. I promised at least another post, if not more, to follow on that one, and here I am, making good. This is where I question the value of interviews as we know them and describe what I consider to be vaguely depressing…
I was going to publish the next Chess TDD post today, but I got caught up in the worst kind of yak-shaving where I was basically just trying to get my computer functional again. So, I didn’t get the audio recorded, and I have something different to talk about, to-boot. Last night, I stayed up…
A while ago Scott Hanselman wrote a post about “paralysis by analysis” which I found to be an interesting read. His blog is a treasure trove of not only technical information but also posts that humanize the developer experience, such as one of my all time favorites. In this particular post, he quoted a stack overflow…
Here in the United States, the 4th of July is Independence Day. Traditionally, this holiday is celebrated with barbecues, warm weather activities, beer, and blowing things up, generally in the form of fireworks both professional and amateur. Given that it occurs on a Friday this year, it’s a big 3 day weekend here for most…
In 2013, I made a mildly rambling life update post. In it, I described that I had decided to leave the job I had at the time with the intention of job seeking and blogging about it all the while (and also possibly striking out on my own). Things passed in something of a whirlwind…
