I’m a code perfectionist. I like nice code. Nicely formatted. Nicely structured. Nicely designed code. Of course, first and foremost, the code must do what it is designed to do; it must fulfill its functional spec. But any programmer worth...
Generally speaking, I like to keep my political leanings out of my postings, but I’ll make a special exception today 😀 Via TheStar.com: Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to...
The stunt that the Bush administration is pulling with this Dubai ports deal is simply genius (and of course, terribly disgusting from a political point of view). About a month after I had gotten the job at Factiva, the recruiter...
I feel like I have ADD today. Focus! (as if that helps) My mind has pretty much been in cruise control mode the last few days…can’t think about technical things. Perhaps it’s just too much excitement and anticipation. I’m changing...
I don’t know if you’re familiar with this book, but it is the definitive catalogue on the most common design patterns that are in use in object oriented systems. You will often hear these four authors referred to as “Gang...
It’s always interesting to see how people end up on this site. That’s one of the neat things about dasBlog…I’m always giddy when I see some new referrals 🙂 Every once in a while, I’ll get a few referrals from...
Yay! I celebrated over the weekend with hotpot at my mother’s significant other’s house. It was great…I love hotpot! But so damn tired from my drive home from Connecticut the night before (I live in Jersey, but currently working in...
Having been a consultant for the last few years, I’ve been in many organizations, seen many application architectures, and met many developers. What saddens me is that far too few developers/consultants in the Microsoft space are digging the Patterns &...
A higher order of abstraction. That’s the answer. What is the value in such a thing? With each level of abstraction that is added, you free up resources to work on higher order concepts. You free up the mind to...
I think that in these last two weeks, I’m finally starting to figure out the answer to one of my least favorite interview questions: where do you see yourself in x years? I think the problem, in my case, is...