I am recovering from a couple of weeks of COVID madness and trying to get back into my habits, including writing. To my surprise, I had no idea what to write about. I was effectively blocked. Thinking about being blocked reminded me of being blocked at work and what I did to get moving. In […]
Today felt productive, engaging, and like I finally made real progress. Here is how the day went. I created a new ProjectManager class to contain the logic for the project domain. Since I am exposing the most straightforward functionality, I only added create and read methods, with creation only having a title as a required […]
Day four was fun but short. I began by setting my Pomodoro timer to 25 minutes to work on the first milestone, creating and viewing projects. The project’s definition already has a lot of functionality, so I constrained the milestone only to include the title as part of the project. The framework I am using https://aspnetboilerplate.com is […]
Day 3 took me towards project management; here is what happened. I managed to get 30 minutes in before the end of my day, so I was determined to make the most out of them. Recently, someone shared an article on project management and the importance of setting milestones rather than features. Using the concept […]
Today was my first-day writing code for what I call “the empathy project” to build empathy for what engineers go through. Here is how my first day went. I started with an existing template to give a good starting point. After following the instructions, I downloaded the template and ran into my first error. Something […]
We’re currently hiring for a hard-to-fill position. I reached out to a good friend to see if he was interested, and to my surprise, he said he was going to apply. It was unlikely given he is currently employed, less than a year in at his current company, with decent compensation and a good work […]
As I dictated this from the community park, I got reminded of a book I read on stress management. In this book, they talk about resiliency, and the author gives an example of their kid learning how to go up the stairs, and he describes the experience from his point of view as one of […]
Today I had to deal with customer service for a major airline, and it was such a negative experience that I feel compelled to write about it. If your product offers customer service, there are some suitable lessons here. Training Our problem was the interpretation of essential guidance by the CDC needed to travel into […]
I had a car accident a few years ago. I was in New Jersey, and I went to get tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich at my favorite Italian restaurant. After enjoying my meal, I got into my rental vehicle and drove towards McGuire Air Force Base. On my way there, I was driving […]