Your Database Change Needs To Be Committed!
It was a harrowing situation. Most of my development team was gone for the day and I was trying to swing back into action. The customer was unable to work with their equipment, and...
Author: Adam
The Rewards of Being Diligent
My dad once told me long ago that being a software engineer is about being lazy. A developer, he said, was always working to find the laziest way to complete a problem. Which sounds...
The Power of Loyalty
My daughter’s dog will follow her wherever she goes, or can only be found where my daughter will eventually be. All day long they sit together as she does her school work, and even...
Recognizing Addiction’s Motives
The capitalistic society of the United States runs on consumers buying things that they do not need. To get us to buy these things or to spend our money in this way, things are...
Wisdom Leads To Security
I’m not sure the first time that I realized that something that was obvious to me was something that someone else may not have thought of, but it related to my experience as a...
Nothing Worse than Endless Meetings
Solomon was way ahead of his time. In Proverbs 14 we come to the following truth: There is profit in all hard work,but endless talk leads only to poverty. Proverbs 14:23 We’ve all been...
Doing Too Many Things Poorly
There’s an expression that I’ve heard and used many times “Jack of All Trades, Master of None” and in today’s society, it seems that this would fit most people– myself included. The gig economy...
A Culture of Individuality
If I were to choose something that is unique to the American culture as compared to other cultures, I would have to say that it’s that we are extremely individualistic. By this I mean...
If Only Someone Else Would Do the Debugging
There are a lot of adages regarding work to be done that go something like this: 20% of the people do 80% of the work. This is because the character trait of diligence is...
Knowing What You’re Asking For
As I grow older, I’m convinced that some degree of wisdom is just knowing when something doesn’t make sense– a growth of the common-sense muscle that you were born with. This is especially helpful...
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