As time goes on, developers will be all the harder pressed to keep up with the skyrocketing number of languages and frameworks. The number of javascript libraries alone is increasing at a furious pace: Angular, Backbone, Node, Ember, Knockout, Knockback,…
One thing I strongly recommend to developers when starting at a new job is to keep a list of everything that bothers you. Every new company you work at, there are always a list of things that you will see as pain points because you came from a pla…
Ego Driven Development, (EDD), is a software development anti-pattern where developers and managers repeatedly act as if established best practices do not apply to them, to the detriment of their organization. Institutional ego is most often to bl…
I have a method I use for rapidly learning new programming languages that I wanted to share because I have not really seen it documented anywhere else. This technique is not for the faint of heart, but it is a lot of fun. Many of you old hands and…
I have often thought whenever I meet a programmer who is obviously grossly incompetent that there needs to be some sort of certification board for software engineering that can help enforce some minimal skills to help weed out the riff-raff. Obvio…
Lately, I have been deliberating on quality vs. speed. Throughout my career, I have worked with developers who basically consider quality to be a programmer’s vice, an extravagance only for the navel-gazing idealists. I have also worked with devel…
December 1st, I made myself a New Year’s resolution to completely create an Android game that I would not be ashamed to show people from (mostly) scratch before the end of December. What made it the most fun was that I started with practically no …
I can’t get focused today. My mind is a torrent of activity completely unrelated to my task at hand, so I am writing this to get these thoughts out so I can get back to work.I got a call from a recruiter the other day trying to get me to come inte…
In ancient times, plenty of builders did their work without math, and I would guess that a good portion of them likely did it faster then their math-doing counterparts. I am certain that when builders first started using math to prove that buildin…
The last three and a half years for me have been terrible. Why? Well, three and half years ago, I discovered the endless debate, Emacs vs. Vim. Being an efficiency nut, I could not fathom the horror of learning one, and by that action, not learnin…
