Daily Entries

So, today is yet another day where I felt the need to drop $1,000 on software. Not just for me, thankfully. Some of it is for a new hire. He’s not full time, nor is he likely to ever be, but the paperwork is squared away, so it would appear that I’m going to need…

Tomorrow, I’m going to launch “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly“, inspired by a poker variant of the same name. This section will represent an engineering perspective into the world of business and marketing. I started writing a daily entry about it two days ago, and it just started growing out of control so…

Today I had a very unique experience. I was at a client site working to debug this multi-threaded test application they had written, when the HR director stopped by with a set of instructions for the phone. They had apparently changed all of the voicemail systems, so wanted to make sure everyone knew how to…

My “How to focus on quality” article took longer to get out the door than I thought. It’s been sitting there unfinished for the better part of a week. Late last week, I decided to talk with my CPA to get my corporate and personal taxes done. I’ve still got another month, but I suppose…

Mike Gunderloy put together a great article for developer.com outlining “Ten of the Biggest Mistakes Developers Make With Databases”. It ties in pretty well with my Gatekeeper article, advocating a single point of control for database development within an application. Everything he mentioned, I myself have seen time and time again. The bottom line is…

I’m a firm believer that you should never stop learning. Perhaps that’s where my intense dislike of self-proclaimed experts comes from. That, or the fact that half the time I probably know more about the topic at hand than they do, and since I wouldn’t call myself an expert, how is it that they can?…

Well, Moon River Milestones v1.1.0 is out the door, and it’s time to turn our attentions towards a pair of other pressing matters. First, is the conversion of our website from the older and more venerable ASP code to C#.NET. “Why the change? Isn’t it good enough as is?” Well, not quite. Part of the…

It’s always nice to finish up something you’ve worked very hard on. This weekend will mark the completion of Moon River Milestones v1.1.0. A small milestone for Moon River, but a new milestone nonetheless. Testing revealed some rather embarrassing bugs, to be sure. For example, I recently added anchor links for the text descriptions of…

Well, it’s done and testing is underway. So far, I’ve only found a couple of issues and they’re pretty minor. No sense in wasting time talking about them though. The time would be better spent on fixing them. I expect that the new version will be ready for all of our customers and live in…

It’s not really all that calm to be honest, but it’s certainly not the fire and brimstone of yesterday when nobody knew what to think, false rumors were getting started, and obscene emails were coming in. Perhaps one of my goals for the year should have been “Try not to get noticed until after version…