Software Development

The Google Borg Assimilated Me

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Sometimes development projects just drag on and on… and sometimes resistance is futile when it comes to NIH. I swear that the Borg got me the last six months when I started switching over to Cake PHP and an MVC Architecture.
It’s not that I like or enjoy assimilation, but every time I analyze the […]

Gymnophobia – The Fear of Being Buck Naked

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I would have never guessed, and here all along I thought Gymnophobia was the fear of going to the Gym…
Now I’m not going to bore you with all my phobias, and strutting around buck naked in the 24-hour Fitness locker room is not one of them, but I have to admit that I’ve got Gymnoputphobia.
employee […]

Besides Software I Actually Know Very Little About SEO

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Unlike me, Amit the Super Affiliate, probably should stick to PPC traffic cause he can’t pass a simple SEO Cartoon Quiz. Not that I’m a professed SEO expert, I’ve found that if you simply “follow the SEO recipe“, your pages will rank higher in the SERPS. After all, W3.org is the governing organization which […]

02h — You’re Killing Me Today

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

I really didn’t want to go into work today but I keep getting a Check Condition (SCSI Status Code 02h). I should have hooked up the Fibre Channel Analyzer up last night, but with the “Great California Rain Storm” pounding down, I left the office to pick up my wife before the real […]

MVC Architecture

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Basic Stuff: The Model-View-Controller Architecture has three components used to partition and separate the processing from the display or GUI: The Model, View and Controller.
Basically, the inputs are mapped to the Controller and the outputs are mapped to the View. The Model maintains the persistent state of the Controller. Some MVC Architecture Diagrams […]

Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process (Part III)

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Leveraging existing technology is always a difficult task. It’s more of a personal challenge to get over the mindset that you can do it better. Perhaps you can, but do you have the time and budget to accomplish the daunting task of building a component that someone already has built for you?
There’s […]

Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process (Part II)

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Not Invented Here is a continuing series of articles to help you overcome the hurdles of reusing and leverage existing technology for rapid development. The decision to develop any product in-house takes considerable amount of effort and development time. Reusing components and integrating them with your product reduces the time to delivery and in […]

Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

“Not Invented Here” (NIH). This is one of the biggest hurdles developers have to overcome when reusing components, modules, functions or snippets in the production software. I’ve run across it my entire development career — developers simply do not like to use software that they don’t write and own — and of course, I’m […]

Every Software Developer Needs a Good Cup of Java

Monday, August 6th, 2007

I never met a software developer that didn’t drink coffee (or tea). Lots of coffee. This is due to the demanding hours we keep. Eighteen hour days is not unusual especially during crunch-time.
I love running out to Starbucks, Coffee Bean or now my favorite Bad Ass Coffee around 3 or 4 […]

I Keep Telling My Wife I’m Working on MustFindit

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

It’s been a busy evening trying to finalize the design for MustFindit. If you’re a software developer, you know that nothing is final and there’s always fiddling to get that extra bit of performance out of your creation.
I’m well past the MustFindit alpha launch date of June 15, 2007 but with these latest changes, things […]