Blind

I remember a friend saying “if you hate someone, stick a potato in his car’s exhaust pipe”. He will most likely start digging from the engine, make his way through all imaginable parts but not the exhaust pipe.
Today, I was that silly mechanic once more. I went through many methods, double and triple checked many [...]

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One Hand Syndrome

Lately I am catching myself with one hand on mouse, other on my chin infront of the computer. Not a very fortunate position for a software developer. It feels a lot better when both are on the keyboard.
I noticed this behavior when I start seeing other developers doing the same thing.  Not very fortunate for [...]

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What My Cats Teaching Me

Note: This is one of failed “let’s start now and finish later” attempts. I decided to publish them even they are not finished. My experience with myself (more than 30 years) if I don’t complete it in a reasonable time, I never will. So here it is, with hope that it will all make [...]

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Modularity is key to scalability

Note: This is one of failed “let’s start now and finish later” attempts. I decided to publish them even they are not finished. My experience with myself (more than 30 years) if I don’t complete it in a reasonable time, I never will. So here it is, with hope that it will all make [...]

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Pragmatic Programmer

I am not one. Not yet. I tend to generalize the problems and go for a more complicated solution instead of directly going for a solution. I tend to move the discussion on a more theoretical area. It’s not a bad thing, not always. But if you happen to work with deadlines it might not [...]

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Visiual Studio Automation

Few days ago I had one of my coding week-ends. They are getting rare and rare so I make a big deal out of it. I was back to my pet project, reshaping and adding some make up. I am hoping to write some about it soon. Good thing with having pet projects, you don’t [...]

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Enso is open

That’s it. When they made it free I hesitated but still didn’t give up my pet project, my very own command line utility. I liked the idea to shape it myself and add the commands that I like to have. But now they went open source as well..
I liked Enso since the first time I [...]

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Time Tracking

I mainly worked on project based companies. There are few things I like with such companies:
* Projects last from few months to a year, a year and a half at most. They might be similar but not identical. You get to learn/experience a wide variety of things.
* Changing projects are like pressing reset button on [...]

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Boxes

I have something new for my therapy after a long days work: Some cutting, folding and pasting. A personal touch for presents. I made a couple of these:

Last night, thinking that I don’t have enough time my new design I decided to make something simple. I needed a protected cover for my small booklet. Being [...]

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Tools Development

I like developing in house tools since it brings you close to your user. And better than that, your user is yourself or your friend that you share your working hours. This is about job satisfaction, you know , to see what good is that you are doing. This is what you might feel if [...]

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