This is the city, St Louis. I work here. My name is Rob. I write code. I carry a badge.
I was fortunate to be at Devup again this year as an attendee. Last year I took a shot at documenting my notes here on ye old blog. That “kinda” happened. That is to say, I started, then fizzled out. This year I’m doing it again. But now with more enthusiasm! Writing, I mean. Not … Read more Devup 2019 – Keynote
I was talking to someone on Slack today at work while … um … working, yeah … working really hard. The person I was chatting with was looking to get into IT and asked me how I got my start. I shared with them my very non-typical journey. Then later I figured, hey, why not … Read more How Did I Get into IT?
Continuing our series on Devup 2018 (gosh I wrote that like I have a huge readership) let me introduce another rockstar, Angela Dugan. If you get a chance to hear Angela speak, particularly on the subject of soft skills, make it a point to be there. I first heard Angela speak at Devup in 2017 … Read more Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Building a Stronger Team One Strength at a Time
After this year’s dev up conference in St Louis, MO I wanted to write my notes and thoughts here on my blog instead of just keeping them to myself (like I usually do). Sharing with the rest of the developer community … that’s in keeping with many of the speaker’s messages from the conference too … Read more Dev up 2018 – What you missed
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
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
… 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
During a conversation with another developer friend of mine, an idea to create this hit me. I think we all have days where we can identify with this to some extent. When you think about it, a lot of what we do/feel as developers falls into these buckets. Or heck maybe it’s just me. (Please … Read more Coder: A Venn Diagram