My Development Site
This is my Development site. I just learned how to write web apps. Click here to check it out.My Photography Site
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Recent Posts
- An Early Spring
- Pivoting
- What Makes a Good Programmer?
- Halfway There
- Defensiveness is not a Virtue
- I Have an Itch
- Embracing My Square Peg
- And So It Begins
- Network’s Antonym: Separate
- Chicago in December
- Got Symptoms?
- I Took those Photographs in a Mirror
- Out with the Old, In with the New!
- Let’s Play Pretend
- Thoughts on Work-Life Balance
Category Archives: Software Development
Pivoting
I have finished my classroom training at Code Academy. Tonight is the dress rehearsal at 1871 in Chicago. Demo Day is tomorrow evening. 549 people have RSVP’d to the event. I’m not sure how big the room is, but I … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Photography, Software Development
Tagged 1871, chicago, code academy, css3, database, demo day, design, freelance, github, heroku, html5, mvp, photography, rails, ruby, software, sql, web development
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What Makes a Good Programmer?
I don’t recall anyone ever asking me this question. I wish somebody would. There is no one answer as to what determines whether one individual is a good programmer while others are better off finding another career. Contrary to some … Continue reading
Posted in Self-Management, Software Development
Tagged age, coder, developer, ego, engineer, entrepreneur, ethnicity, gender, hacker, programmer, race, software, startup, traits
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Halfway There
I am at the half-way point of my 12-week training classes at Code Academy in Chicago. There is so much to learn and so little time. My days, evenings, and weekends are packed, pushing my brain to the limit and … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Software Development
Tagged code academy, coding, development, fun, learning, programming, software, struggling
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I Have an Itch
Sometimes, when I don’t know what to write, I just start writing the first thing that pops into my head and then I go with it. That is how I came up with today’s title. It came out of nowhere. … Continue reading
Posted in Self-Management, Software Development, Uncategorized
Tagged code academy, learning, mentor, pomodoro, software
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Embracing My Square Peg
I’m just over two weeks into my Code Academy experience and it’s come to my attention that being a geek is cool now. I have some catching up to do. As you all know, I left the geek world ten … Continue reading
Posted in Image, Nonsense, Software Development, Status
Tagged code academy, computer, cool, education, geek, learning, Mac, PC, programming, ruby on rails, software development, square peg
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