Just Words

Reborn

Caring and vested interests

Caveat: Most of my experience and my close friends’ experiences are from small-medium companies, not giant corporations that can just throw >resources> at problems.

One of the most difficult things in all of software development is task management when $number_of_people > 1.

We have people whose only job is to babysit other people’s tasks and making sure they get done in the right order even if today’s right might be tomorrow’s left.

The main reason this is a big problem in our industry is that tasks are almost exclusively wholly virtual: written atop a 30 email long FWD:RE:RE:RE:FWD:RE thread, input into a specific app made for tracking tasks like Trac or JIRA, or - worst case scenario - present only in the minds of the tasker and taskee.

Cap’n we’ve got a pulse

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$ sudo make me a blog

Here’s a medium-sized recap of where I’ve been and what I’ve done to set the stage for future blog posts.

<HTML>, PHP - summary of acronym abuse.

Having written my first snippet of HTML 3.2 back in ‘96 and then after a few years of hand-written html/css and some quirky js I was learned some php and mysql from Sami Honkonen and thenceforth I have been programming almost exclusively for the web. I’ve done php, python, c#/asp.net, ruby/rails, java, javascript/backbone.js/node.js and groovy/grails. A lot of different experiences and ways to build a wheel - but I’ve invented that wheel quite a few times now.

I am now taking a step away from web development, even tho’ the field is full of potential and it is changing at such a rapid pace it would probably be prudent to stick with it and especially master javascript as it is surfacing as the generalist language with which you can do almost anything.