Kiteboarding and Software Design, basically the same thing.
27 Apr 2019
Before I went back to school to get another degree, this time in computer science, I taught people how to kiteboard. This sport begins with an immensely steep learning curve that quickly plateaus as newbies gain proficiency in the basic...
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After many years of coding my web design styles exclusively from scratch in CSS, switching to a framework has been a frustrating experience. I would be remiss not to reflect on the swelling pride from accomplishment that fill when reflecting...
My feelings on coding standards lie somewhere along a continuum between “I understand the usefulness of coding standards” and “why must I suffer through them”. Today, I lean more towards the later as I realized that I did not configure...
After reading the article, How to Ask Questions the Smart Way, by Eric Steven Raymond, I felt armed with new tools for entering the world of crowd sourced help with technical issues. Although I’ve never asked a question on stack...
The first module of the class reinforced familiar concepts with but also presented new ideas. I am not a novice Javascript programmer by any means, but I am well aware that there is always something new that I can learn,...
Although it has been a decade since I began to write code, my future in software engineering is only beginning. My love of programming blossomed from a hobby to a side business where I designed and maintained web sites for...