Technological and coding misadventures!
Keeping a software developer/engineer motivated is a difficult task for managers, directors, all the way up to the VP. One of the common issues that comes up, that leaves an engineer unhappy with their lot in a company is conflicting tasks. Engineers often, especially senior engineers, can handle multiple tasks at a particular time. But... Continue reading
I was listening away to some ear blistering metal, as I often do, and an ad really jumped out at me. If you can?t see what is written in the HTC ad to the right, click on the image. What is displayed is a cross-correlation of several points of analytics data. Before I jump right... Continue reading
Again, conversations give me a zillion things to write about. The recent conversation that has cropped up again is my various viewpoints of the Agile Manifesto. Not all the processes that came after the manifesto was written, but just the core manifesto itself. Just for context, here is the manifesto in all the glory. We... Continue reading
Recently the question came up from a close friend of mine, “will my PhD help me attain a higher income in the north west?” I had to tell him, that it might get him a little more, but it won’t get him in the top income brackets for the occupation. Another time, a few days... Continue reading
Ok, I am not one to laugh out loud while trudging through voluminous stacks of bytes on the Internet, but this was one of the cartoons that got me recently. Yes, and I buckled under the realistic hilariousness of this one. http://gapingvoid.com/2009/05/25/httpgapingvoid-com20090525now-accepting-private-commissions-for-moleskines-and-cube-grenades/scc001b/ Continue reading
