Failure is Part of Success
I did my tenth Toastmasters speech today which fulfill the requirements for a Competent Communicator Award Here is the speech: “Thomas Edison once said, I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. What he is referring to is a cost effective Electric light bulb. He tried 10,000 times to make it […]
Tool for creating CSS for a sprite
A sprite is an image that contains a bunch of smaller images. I needed to write CSS for a sprite image that was created by our graphic designer. I found a tool called Sprite Box and it worked pretty well. Here is another one that will build the sprite image for you too called Instant […]
Why should I care what my code looks like?
Someone said to me recently “I don’t care what the code looks like, as long as it works.” This offended me because I take pride in making my code look nice and easy to read. Plus it makes me happy to develop clean code. But why should you care? I was on a project that […]
I Don’t Have Time…Most of the Time
Have you ever said “I don’t have time for XYZ”? If you said no you are liar or a very special person. I have said this many times, to myself, my co-workers and my wife. What does “I don’t have time” really mean? I think it means either “I don’t care about that right now” […]
Training using Study Groups
Since I have started working at SEP I have been invited to a number of training sessions where an outside trainer is brought in and we get a mix of lecture and exercises for a couple of days then the trainer goes home. The last training I attended was a Jeff Patton training on Story […]
One Small Step Toward TDD, One Small Leap for SEP
One small Step Toward TDD I have been reading about TDD and unit testing for about 7 years now and have not fully adopted TDD. It has a ton of time tested benefits including writing less production code, writing simpler code, making your code easier to change, making your code easier to test and the […]
