I’ve done a little bit of work lately on a utility that reads from log files that are generated over the course of a month. Probably about 98% of the time, users would only be interested in this month’s file and last month’s file. How should I handle this? At different points in my career,…
There’s a moment at a job that you’ve probably never thought about specifically, but it’s a knee point of sorts. Think of arriving at a new gig that you take somewhere, fresh out of the interview process, pumped about the new opportunity and the 10% pay bump you’ve negotiated for yourself, and generally rarin’ to…
There’s nothing quite like the pressure of assuming organizational leadership for the first time in a professional capacity. And, seriously, I mean in a professional capacity — I’m not talking about being voted captain of the freshman basketball team or student government something. Non-professional leadership scenarios are akin to poker games played at the kids’…
I don’t read blogs nearly as often these days as I used to and as I wish I currently did. A lot of this is the result of generating increasing amounts of my own content in various forms, and the rest is probably that I spend most of my time these days in coaching/administrative sorts…
I think that I’ve been blogging long enough to earn a bit of latitude when it comes to making up pseudo-scientific ‘theories’ to describe the universe. So, indulge me, if you will, as I abuse concepts of physics by using them as staging points for a narrative of human behavior. I think it’ll be fun for all…
