I had to make a call about a month ago to an ISP when a site I was working on went down in the middle of the night with no warning. My first fear was that all of our data had been deleted and I did not know anyone who had a backup. I called up the ISP and miraculously got someone on the phone and spoke with them. At this point in time, my…
Want to throw a wrench into someone’s day? Assign them a critical production bug. Everything they had planned for that day just went out the window as they now to try to identify, isolate and solve the problem. Sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes it’s not and the time it can take to resolve can go from an hour to the entire day. Want to throw a grenade into someone’s day? Tell them they have to restart…
Take your favourite comedian and watch them work their magic on the crowd. Notice anything? When a comedian, a good comedian, makes you laugh it’s only the start of their delivery, they have you laughing, smiling, you’re almost at the peak and then they deliver the one-line zinger that sends you over the edge, you can’t contain the laughter you were holding in, you never thought you’d be one of those people that laugh with…
CTRL + SHIFT + B is the most satisfactory of keyboard short-cuts. At the end of a long day, a frustrating problem or a late night of coding beyond the zone, the greatest feeling can be summed up in watching your complier scroll through all the dependencies, build them one at a time and generate your masterpiece unto the build server. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, sometimes the longer it takes, the more…
I’m continually blown away by the argument that years = experience. That a developer with a resume of 15 years of projects can have that count as experience. But a developer, with heart, passion and drive that has learned and built more in less than 3 because she has more curiosity for how things work, has gone beyond the projects she works on in the confines of her office to develop her own side-projects and…