Here I am sitting at work, typing away at some code, and I took a short break to quickly read a blog entry, “Confessions of a Terrible Programmer“. After checking out these confessions of a terrible programmer I was reading through the comments. While reading through them I stumbled upon one that I had to... Continue reading →

I’ve been carrying my gigantic 17″ Inspiron 1720 around in a messenger bag lately. The bag is alright, it serves the purpose of carrying the laptop, but not much beyond just the laptop. It doesn’t offer a whole ton of protection either. With those issues to resolve, I set out to purchase a truly hard... Continue reading →

I’ve officially signed the paperwork this morning! I can now announce that I will be joining WebTrends in downtown Portland on October the 15th! I’ll be working as a business intelligence analyst and looking forward to working on their various involvements with a great deal of companies. I will be significantly expanding my skills with... Continue reading →

A tip for code generation. When reading through various patterns based development books, working on my current gig, and just trying to make code more readable without adding too much headache, I’ve stumbled on a few tips. Name those entities! Instead of “Address” or “User” you would then have AddressEntity or UserEntity. This is very... Continue reading →

As anyone in the software industry knows, especially those that use the latest and greatest, having an up to date and powerful toolkit is vital for the job. Without a good personal toolkit a developer can be rendered almost useless or at least lost a huge amount of value. In my efforts to stay above... Continue reading →