Nate Taylor

I was reading a biography written by a former professor about one of my favorite Baptist preachers, Charles Spurgeon.  In this biography is a quote from Spurgeon talking about preaching and a conversation he had with a fellow preacher. In this conversation, the other preacher said That is not my case, I revise my creed ...

Tomorrow morning we’re kicking off the first real sprint on a new project. I’ve been working on this project full time for about 3 weeks now. It’s a project that, for me, started back in January with an RFP. Another coworker and I spent 2 weeks combing through the RFP and coming up with an ...

I heard back from Pluralsight this week. I wasn’t immediately accepted, they want to see a second video from me. I was told there were 3 possible outcomes when auditioning: Immediate acceptance Second video Immediate rejection Obviously,  I was hoping for the first one. Who doesn’t want immediate acceptance?  But I am glad that it wasn’t ...

May 22, 2014 Last week I spoke at KCDC and had a pretty good time. I really enjoy speaking at conferences. It’s weird for developers and technical people to enjoy it, but it has been something I’ve enjoyed doing ever since I found out that conference speakers are just “regular folks.” For a long time ...

This past week I spoke at KCDC which is a wonderful conference in Kansas City, MO. Yes, there are actually developers in the midwest doing amazing things. Last year was the first year I was there, and it added between 300 and 400 people from last year to this year. I had the joy of doing ...

A few years ago, I read a blog from Uncle Bob that advocated delaying the decision of your database as long as possible. The main motivation is that the database should not be the central hub of your application. Instead, your application should do things. That logic should be the focus of your application and the ...

I’m working on a little personal side project using nodejs, backbone and mongo.  It’s actually a rewrite of something I wrote in .Net about a year ago. But I’m trying to expand it and also trying to practice TDD more.  About a year ago I made up my mind that I was done saying I was ...

I’m in the midst of writing one of my presentations for KCDC and I was thinking about TDD. I was also doing some reading about a case of a scientist falsifying data.  The falsified data was published in a journal and was heralded as one of the “top 3 discoveries in stem cell research.”  The ...

This week I was looking over a pull request at work and I noticed that there was a long-ish method in the code. This particular method was around 100 lines long. I know for some people that’s huge, for others, it’s tiny. As I read the method, I put a comment on the PR that ...

Back in the day (roughly 4 years ago) I was doing Windows development. That was all I had done for about a decade of my professional career. If you add in my coding back before I turned pro, it was all I had ever done for about 15-20 years. I knew, more or less, how ...