Monthly Archives: May 2012

This past weekend my wife lost the crown on her tooth, and by Monday afternoon I had a better understanding of software design. How? Monday morning she called our dentist. We have new insurance, so she’s never been to this dentist, but we had to pick a dentist when we signed up (so I found ...

The first developer I ever worked with was named Fred.  I was only about 17 years old at the time, and had gotten a job working at an engineering firm after school. I did a lot of grunt work type things: assembled documentation binders, removed all old parts books out of the library, organized & ...