I listen to podcasts every morning during my drive to work (no more radio for me) and a particular one that's been a favorite of mine is This Developer's Life [http://thisdeveloperslife.com/]. This morning, I got into my car, loaded up the episode, and starting driving. Unlike the many
My wife and I were fortunate enough to be able to purchase season-long passes for us and our kids to our local water park. Since we live in a desert [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/phoenix-is-not-just-saguaros-and-camelback-mountain/] and our summer lasts half the year, this park is a perfect place for all
I've only held three full-time software development jobs since graduating from college, including my current one. The second one was supposed to be my big breakthrough, my time to shine and become part of a well-oiled team of kickass programmers. That was not what happened. What actually happened was six
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
When can code that looks the same not be the same? When it's actually a Code Chameleon in disguise! Our failure to dig a little deeper and actually understand the code we were trying to rewrite led to a bunch of wasted time and effort. Similar But Not Similar In