This is the city, St Louis. I work here. My name is Rob. I write code. I carry a badge.
Back at my second real IT job, we did not have what some would call today “true” agile practices. I say that because we did a great deal of up-front design work, requirements gathering, and signoffs. Those are all things that most “agile” shops I’ve worked with avoid like the plague. Somehow though, at that job, we seemed … Read more Want Amazing Products? Build an Amazing Culture
Most days I leave all the programming stuff at work, where (for me), work belongs. I make it a point to not focus on work at home. Since I work for an employer, that effort I perform for them is to build someone else’s dreams. So I leave work at work, striving, never to let … Read more Learning for fun instead of “for the job”
Recently I needed to roll my own phone number formatting for a problem at work. The basic requirement was as follows: All the user to only enter numbers, no other characters were allowed The user could only enter 10 numbers After all the numbers were entered, the value would auto-format to (xxx)-xxx-xxxx The user could … Read more JavaScript Format Phone Number – Dead Simple
I recently discovered this glorious option so I’m posting here both for my own memory and just to help anybody out that might need it. If you, like me, are tired of taking your Visual Studio dark settings and meticulously making SQL Management Studio match, then this is a much quicker way to get there. … Read more Unlock the Dark theme for SQL Management Studio
Are you letting life just happen to you? The other day, I found myself at work, and every few minutes I would check my email. No reason really which I could think of at the time. Do a little work. Check email. Do more work. Refresh email again. Not a fun day really. If you’re … Read more How to Stop Letting Life Just Happen to You
Authoring code? What kinda title is that Mr. Horton? Yep, all of us who write code … we’re all authors. But perhaps that’s another post entirely. Today I wanted to jot down why I do this crazy little thing called code as well as how I got my start. Well, first this man and woman … Read more Authoring Code and Why I Do It
… or Who I’d Want to Work For. There is a person I want to work for and an environment I want to be in. Both of these are so hard to find. If I were a software manager, this is also the person I’d strive to be for my team, as well as the healthy environment … Read more The Best Job Description for a Software Development Manager Ever Written
You are a writer. You read me correctly. A writer. Check it out. See? Told ya. As developers, we write code (text) for others to enjoy, either through the usage of the output it creates or … wait there is another thing to consider here? … yeah .. or for others to read and learn … Read more Who do you code for?
This week I started delving into Xamarin which promises “Deliver native iOS, Android, and Windows apps using existing skills, teams, and code”. As part of Burgundy’s impending release, I wanted to see how Xamarin worked because the promise of “code reuse” across the various MMOS .. Multiple Mobile Operating Systems … is very intriguing to me. … Read more Xamarin – Simple Demo
Ok dudes and dudettes, I’m a weird duck. I get that. 🙂 Also, in my last post, I know I promised a different topic for this time but I had to get this one out. Perhaps on 2/10, I’ll unleash the post I had mentioned. Maybe this is just a picture of how strangely my … Read more Life Epics (Living the Scrum Life)