Those of you who have been following along for a while know that I'm a temporary-agency employee who's currently assigned to an international retailer. Specifically, I work in International Trade Compliance. My primary job is to prepare certain documentation as part of any transaction which involves exporting goods. I also help maintain databases ( Read more... )

Okay, Geek Trust, let's get some input on this.

The opinion has come across my screen that most programmers don't utilize more than 40% of the capabilities of a given programming language.

Is that a high estimate, a low estimate, or just about spot-on?

Discuss.

ETA: Apparently, I wasn't clear about something. This was an opinion that came ( Read more... )

Working my way through another week of no work. No paid work, that is. I've got a stack of radios sitting in the corner of the living room that I have to finish testing by Friday afternoon so they're ready for use this weekend at the Big Sur Marathon, and I have about half a metric shitload of updates that have come my way that I need to review for ( Read more... )

Saturday has arrived once again, and as usual it finds me in front of the keyboard. So what's been going on in the world of the Alan?

1. Adventures in cooking: Last week's recipe was for kielbasa and orzo. Quick, easy, tasty, filling. A keeper. I'd never worked with orzo before, and the amount of liquid called for in the recipe made me wonder if I ( Read more... )

Question of the day...am I a complete throwback for thinking it would be good to learn to program using Ada?

*poof*

I just completed installing the Android SDK. I am now capable of developing apps for the Droid/MyTouch platform ( Read more... )

I find myself with a bit more "free" time than I generally care for between runs, and whether I like it or not my writing has hit a stalling point (a bad thing with NaNoWriMo just a few days away from starting). I don't like sitting around staring at the parking lot and letting my brain idle all that much, and I'd like to continue some of my ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, mommameow!

Thanks (whups...THX) to bandicoot for pointing me to this clever bit of insanity. If you're not a coder and/or a fan of lolcats, you probably won't get the humor...I'm both, so it has me grinning like a fool this morning ( Read more... )

New Java SDK, new version of JBuilder. I'm still trying to pick up on some of the new goodies in J2SE 5, and now I have to track down all the changes in J2SE 6?

I'm going to have to audit the class. That's all there is to it. That or chunk out the money for the online course over at JavaRanch. I still want my SCJP certification, but now I get ( Read more... )