11 months ago
The humble function is the most powerful tool you will learn in any programming language. function DoStuff () { } With it you will learn the basics of encapsulating functionality that you can re-use later in your work. From it you will learn about objects, classes, inheritance, recursion, events, hooks, etc, etc. But it all starts, it all originates, from the Humble Function.
12 months ago
I recently had to do one of those “delivery sprints in a week” things because something went wrong and we had to fix it. Long days, long nights, early mornings first trying to figure out what went wrong and then coming up with a solution to fix it and of course then having to test it to make sure you didn’t screw anything up in your rush to fix it. I don’t do as many of these last pushes as I used to, but they are part of the job, and they never go away. Just like any job, there
12 months ago
There is a place where you might not be just yet, where you could be, but just haven’t come to realize it. It’s the place where you belong. Whether it’s work or life, you might not be there just yet, you might be on the path to getting there, but being there right now – no – it’s not time. But if you give up looking, if you stop working towards it, you will never find it. Don’t stop looking.
12 months ago
No matter how hard you try, you can never, ever recreate a memory. It exists at a point in time, not only reflected by the location but your age, your mood, how you were feeling that day, who you were surrounded with. You can’t recreate those moments. You can’t put all those elements into a bottle and hope that lightning will strike twice. You can create new ones, from new variables, new ideas or new components. But the best thing about memories is that they will always be unique to that exact moment in time.
12 months ago
Long drives (trips not golf) are about one thing only – can you go the distance? Can you maintain your focus over 5 hours? Can you keep your cool when things go wrong after 10 hours? Can you keep the team on point after 17 hours? Can you take a break when the finish line is close, but not everyone is at their best? Can you, yourself, keep pushing forward, eyes wide open, not kept alive by caffeine and candy? That’s what you get from doing a Long Drive – you figure out what you can do.
