So sorry this took a while to post, but let’s dive into the last chapter for The Pragmatic Programmer! As always, thank you to Ari Caplan of Dev Empathy Bookclub for letting me use questions from the book club. If you are looking for an awesome group of people to discuss books that can help…
The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 7 Notes and Questions
Notes on Chapter 7, Before the Project All about what to do before starting a project. Seems like it is pre-agile methodologies. Since the agile manifesto came out 2001 seems to fit that timeline. Dig for requirements, don’t gather. They are on not the surface but deep under assumptions. A requirement is a statement of…
I gave my first conference talk
And I survived! Right after Automating and before lunch I presented a talk on 2FA to Kernelcon in Omaha, NE. Kernelcon was a first ever information security conference in Omaha, and was also my first CFP I every submitted. The two days were a blur but let me breakdown 5 things I learned. The audience…
The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 6 Notes and Questions
So my engineering bookclub is continuing on with Chapter 6 in The Pragmatic Programmer. We have had some stops and starts along the way. For chapters 4 and 5 we ended up combing the weeks because none of us were really feeling discussing chapter 4 (Pragmatic Paranoia). We did have to move Chapter 6 from…
The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 5 Notes
For our beginning notes to review and discuss for our book club choice, The Pragmatic Programmer, I used notes from Joe Hallenbeck. This was great for the first 4 chapters, but then I had to put in some work and start taking my own notes. These were just to help jog the memory for discussion…
Engineering Bookclub – The Pragmatic Programmer
I’m leading a book club at my workplace, Flywheel . We are working through “The Pragmatic Programmer From Journeyman to Master” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. Published in 1999 this books walks through techniques and tips to level up your development. Even being published more than 20 years ago (😱) there are plenty of…
RubyConf Retrospective
I made it through my first technical conference. There was a lot more socializing, networking, and partying then I every thought there would be. These were 3 loooonnng days of non-stop learning, meeting incredible people and being a part of an awesome community that I didn’t even know existed 6 months ago. Man, it is…
The Calm Before the Conf
I’m attending my first RubyConf tomorrow in L.A. This really is my first technical conference that I have ever attended. It is awesome that my employee is putting the time and money into growing me, and I really hope that I can use this as a learning experience, as well as growing my knowledge about…
Code Documentation – before, after, and during coding
Sometimes you just need to started on some design for work on a larger ticket or new feature, you want to get your thoughts down and maybe start plotting out a code flow or some potential classes but what app do you reach for? So much of the time I reach for Google Docs, for…
Introduction to OpenStruct
Last week I had a task to start working with some CSV data pulled in from the database. There was already existing code working with the data, so I needed to make sure whatever changes were applied, that they were backwards compatible. The data was an csv representation of an array. The current code was…