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Below the wonderful strand of yarn masquerading as an HTML divider rule, are these quotes:

"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways ( Read more... )

Monday I start a new job! W00t! I'm so happy to be switching into a position that might be described as "programmer writer". I'll be writing code, in ways that the programs we write can also serve as documentation, or augment documentation at the least, and writing tests for the code I write, and productizing the code, doc, and tests.

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Friday is becoming my job-blog day. I try to update my "news" postings on our Confluence wiki every week.

Also I started a professional blog a couple weeks ago: Writing in a cloud

It's a really small effort and no one has posted a comment yet. Which is fine -- I may never get a post, but I am at least starting to articulate some of the things I think ( Read more... )

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Jim Collins)

Isn't technology wonderful? (Mind you, my current make-it-yourself food obsession has nothing to do with throwing out technology. In fact, last night I thought perhaps I could buy a new bread maker with the money I'll save my first month of riding the bus instead of ( Read more... )

Everyone has a sphere of influence. In my teeny little bubble at work, I'm very popular.

It's review time, and I have collected 8 "360-degree peer" reviews that I have to complete. From other writers, and from a couple developers. (It's rather a compliment when developers ask for your review of their work.)

It's goal time, and again, my boss wants me ( Read more... )

I love it when I come up with a good analogy...

My boss asked for "some sentences" explaining why we need to write a reference guide to expound upon a "BNF" formulation of the syntax (grammar) for a programming language.

For non-code-monkeys, BNF is a cryptical but reasonably precise way to describe the grammatical rules of a programming language. ( Read more... )

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Now before you think she's really evil, it's not like that. She's actually a really good boss for me. She seems to *get* my introversion, she has a kid with the same autism spectrum diagnosis (without the other mental health issues), and she's good technically, a good writer ... a bit of a micro-manager with others, but not so much with me.

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