The Google Borg Assimilated Me
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 [...]
Software Developer Becomes Ice Road Trucker
Watch tonight, 9 PM ET/PT, and you’ll see how I tossed in my career as a Software Developer and became one of the top stars in Ice Road Trucker.
Joking …
Sometimes you have weird dreams like tossing in the towel and taking a life of a less stressful job like a Truck Driver making runs up [...]
Besides Software I Actually Know Very Little About SEO
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 [...]
Goodbye Quicken 2005 Hello Quicken 2008
Guess what? On May 1, 2008 your Quicken 2005 will become NFG when you can’t access your financial accounts anymore. Now of course, if you enter all your records by hand, you don’t have to worry. Perfectly great software going down the drain.
Please, someone at Intuit tell me why? The last time I had to [...]
The Dragon Increases Your Productivity
Walt at 365 To Freedom wrote a very good review on Dragon NaturalSpeaking. I totally agree with him that it is a very productive tool that everyone should purchase. Walt, this is what I think of the product:
Excerpt From My First Dictation (unedited):
This is a review of Dragon natural speaking. [...]
Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process (Part III)
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)
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
“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 [...]
65 Days Ago …
I was checking out MyBlogLog stats today and noticed that it was over 65 days since my last post. At first I was a little upset that they switched over to Yahoo (YHOO:NASDAQ) ID’s to sign in to get to my account. However, it was a painless and transparent move. My [...]
Every Software Developer Needs a Good Cup of Java
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 [...]
