Late last year I set myself some goals to tackle in 2023. These goals fell into three areas in which I am seeking improvement: (1) consolidation, (2) simplification, and (3) automation. In setting those goals, I wrote the following: I believe I can get away with two primary work product formats: plain text files used…
Over on his blog, The Waiter’s Pad, Mike Dariano asks, “How much coding do you really need?” It is an interesting thought piece. He observes that, What we really mean when we say, “people should know how to code” is that people should be able to use tools to deliver value. I’ve been coding for…
Author’s Note: This essay is the second in a series on how I learned to write code. You may want to check out Part 1 if you haven’t already done so. By the time I got my VIC-20, the computer was already outdated, but I wasn’t complaining. There was only one problem: I didn’t know…
Recently, I passed a personal milestone. It is an arbitrary milestone, one for which I am the sole judge, but it is one that has been 37 years in the making. I have been a professional developer (coder) for about 27 years now. In that time, I’ve generally had no problem considering myself a professional.…
Money magazine has rating “Software Engineer” as the #1 job to have in America. Since this is what I do/am, I think this is kind of cool. Read the article at: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/?cnn=yes