I’m writing a book about successfully working from home; click here if you want to know when it is complete. You have decided to work from home. Telecommute. Listen to the kind of music you want to – dance the way your body tells you. Shower less, love more. La-di-freaking-da – you still need to convince your [...]
How to convince your employer to let you telecommute (LIKE A BOSS)
Posted by dtate on December 4, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/how-to-convince-your-employer-to-let-you-telecommute-like-a-boss/
5 minute book review: Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass is a fascinating little change of pace that I just finished reading. It was written by an academic-type (i.e. he may have a beard that he rubs while he talks) who also worked in the commercial the-code-has-to-work world. The book is laid out as 55 Facts [...]
Posted by dtate on December 1, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/5-minute-book-review-facts-and-fallacies-of-software-engineering/
How to deal with robots and get your poodle a job
How should you act when a recruiter calls you during personal relaxation time (i.e. grooming your pet poodle “Fluffikissh”)? What are the ground rules for interacting with robots? If the end goal of everyone is to have a good reputation and to earn a living what are some long term things we can do to get [...]
Posted by dtate on November 29, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/11/how-to-deal-with-robots-and-get-your-poodle-a-job/
A system for analyzing systems [Part 2]
This is the second part of an (awesomely epic) series on how to analyze a software system quickly, click here to view Part 1. So now you (having the right attitude and documenting everything) have viewed the main nouns (data) and verbs (use cases, workflows). What do you do next? Profit? #3 Find integration points [...]
Posted by dtate on November 23, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/11/a-system-for-analyzing-systems-part-2/
A system for analyzing systems [Part 1]
We seek definition to understand the system so that we can discern the rules so that we know what to do next so that we win. – Michael Lopp, Being Geek: The Software Developer’s Career Handbook How do you approach learning a new system that is dumped on your lap like a spilled plate of nachos? Let’s say [...]
Posted by dtate on November 21, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/11/how-to-analyze-systems-quickly-and-for-profit/
Glorious Hack #97: Wrapping regular ViewResults as JSON for rich client-side processing
I recently had the need on a ASP.NET MVC/js project to wrap the results of a controller action in JSON so the middle-class UI could consume and then do one of: Redisplay the current active popup because validation failed (and I wanted to use the built-in MVC validation) Close the current popup and refresh a [...]
Posted by dtate on November 17, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/11/glorious-hack-97-wrapping-regular-viewresults-as-json/
The Three Laws of Robotics (for tech recruiters)
The tech market is so hot right now that if you are a developer and can tell the difference between O(n) and your own butthole you might be getting calls from aggressive recruiters. Recently I’ve had two recruiters that I’ve never met contact friends saying that I had recommended them for a position and I’ve [...]
Posted by dtate on November 15, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/11/the-three-laws-of-robotics-for-tech-recruiters/
Vetting specialized developer experience
Let’s say your job today is to find people to work on a project that uses a crazy-cool-man-I-can’t-wait-to-show-my-old-high-school-girlfriend technology. Since everyone wants to try something new, improve their resume architecture, and dominate buzzword bingo you find that every single person you talk to about said technology appears to have “experience” with it. (Sidebar, the technology [...]
Posted by dtate on November 8, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/11/vetting-specialized-developer-experience/
Barista
Coding for fun not profit. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 #!/d/perl/bin/perl.exe # (void*) # If I ever own a cafe it will be called # 0xBADDECAF or just 0xCAFE, but what else could it be? while (<>) { my @words = split; foreach my $word [...]
Posted by dtate on October 29, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/10/barista/
school
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 [tate]$ cat school.pl while($time) { study until $summer; goto sleep unless $school; my $time_here = undef and exists $the{exit}; do { bless $all , accept $all , connect $all , join $all } until [...]
Posted by dtate on October 28, 2011
http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/10/poem/