Somebody recently asked me if she could see any of the recordings of technical talks I’ve given. Unfortunately, TRMC requires that you be a US government employment or one of its contractors with a reason to be on the TRMC website (https://www.trmc.osd.mil) in order to download the recordings. However, I thought I’d provide some info …
I was just looking at my profile on LinkedIn, which more-or-less is the same thing as my resume. One thing I’ve always found annoying is what to call myself (e.g. a programmer versus software engineer, versus software developer, etc.). I’ve had many official role titles over the years. My first title with NAVAIR was “Computer …
I signed up on codewars.com on March 16th (11 days ago) and have worked my way up to “4 kyu” with their kata challenges (I’ve completed 35 katas at this point). I have no idea if that is good or bad, but the challenges have been interesting and useful for me to work through. Looking …
I recently signed up for a very cool website that I never tripped across before called codewars. The site basically provides programming skills challenges in a way that is fun and a little addictive. Codewars has a ranking system based on the level of difficulty of challenges (called “katas”) and a point system based on …
So I’ve been coding for over 20 years now – starting professionally in 2002 with NAVAIR. I had actually done quite a few side projects before then – mostly website stuff with the LAMP stack. I could probably also count the coding I did while I was working on my bachelor’s degree. My current role …
