I had a meeting with a customer (let's call her Kate) last week, and she wanted some changes to a web-based messaging application that my group owns and manages. That meeting didn't exactly go as planned. Blame Tennis Here's how the conversation between myself and Kate went: > Matthew: OK, so
I often give technical demos at my work about various topics, and the most recent one was an introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 that spawned a lot of blog posts [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/tag/asp-net-core/]. Overall, this class was well-received (at least I believe so, given that
What gives code value? Does your code need to have meaning, a purpose, for you to have the necessary involvement to give your best effort? To what extent should we care about the usage for the code that we write? A lunch conversation with three of my coworkers prompted these
I am an enormously self-critical person. If I'm going out to a party, or having dinner, or even just giving a presentation, I'm constantly playing back my speech and my actions in my head to see where I went wrong. It sounds like two awful television sports announcers who follow
A few days ago I was summoned to a meeting where one of the most basic ideas a web programmer can have wasn't obvious to our non-technical customers. Something had gotten lost in translation, and now I had to try to explain myself. Our customers (let's call them Kate and