Archive for the ‘General’ category

Happy Holidays everyone — Winding down to hiatus mode.

December 10th, 2010

Well, as fast as my wheels were turning for the past few weeks, I’ve decided to slow down for the holiday season and spend some time with the family.

To me, there is nothing better than _quality_ time with family – big emphasis on “quality” because when I’m in work mode, I’m always half thinking about work even when I’m sitting on the couch watching TV.

For me, now is the time to not think about work and spend time with, and think about what I’m really working for. This is also a good time to reflect on my goals for next year.

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New Category: Live Coding Notes

November 19th, 2010

Ok, I know, I’ve been slack.. It’s been several months since my last post and that last one was a tip on how to fix gnome keyring. Now based on how I’ve been on twitter and lack of activity on this blog, I guess you could say that I’ve not been doing anything at all or doing too much.

Well, it’s a mixture of both really, I really, _really_ want to make a post, but then become too busy. Once I’ve finished what I was doing (after several days), I just want to not do anything.

Anyway, those days are no more, I’m creating a new category called “Live coding notes” and it will be notes that I’ve made (I have tons of them on my desk and on gnote) regarding several things I’ve had to do, things I got stuck on, had to mess around with while coding and how I resolve or change my solution.

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Carving up designs & Programming like it’s 1999

June 16th, 2010

Well, my current projects at work are a far cry from last year’s mission critical projects where I was on the edge of my seat, tapping my feet to the sound of inaudible rhythm, staring at the screen with unblinking eyes, gritting my teeth as I developed applications in an almost mechanical manner.

Now, I find myself carving up new designs for ancient projects and looking at the code base, I’m honestly surprised that it has managed to not only run, but make bank for the company it belonged to all these years. Caching really does save your ass, so does having a dedicated server you can pump hardware into.

In the past few weeks, I’ve carved up designs, chased several phantom display bugs (which ended up being typos – you would’ve known if you had been keeping up with my tweets) and went back to coding ASP like it was 1999.

Yes you read right, ASP! I’m currently trapped in legacy code world… negotiating screen real estate and dealing with browser laws and rules that change ever so slightly for each different version of browser software!

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5 things I do to get myself back on focus

February 4th, 2010

Well it’s the last week of my half week holidays and I had a blast. I found myself going from missing work to not thinking about work at all. I know though, that once I got back here at the helm at DP HQ, I’ll be needing some time to get back into the swing of things.

Of course, this is not the first time I’ve taken time off, so I thought I’d warm up my blogging again and talk about what I do to get my mind into gear. So here are 5 things that I like to do to get myself back into focus:

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Added New Feature: Top Commentators

January 18th, 2010

I’m on Holiday at the moment and loving every minute of it! During the Weekend, I’ve decided to add a little something to my blog and installed a new feature which somewhat gives back to those who comment on my blog. I’ve added the Top Commentators feature which lists the top 10 people who have commented on posts within my blog throughout it’s existance. At the moment, I’ve got laserlight with 11 comments.

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