Eureka!
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Loading ...Necessity is the mother of invention, and i must say, she is a hell of a MILF. At work i take pride in many things - My book collection, my library of documents related to development (12 2″ binders worth in fact), a clean and organized white board and so forth. Today i am going to be focusing on what i consider to be the most important thing that i think a cubicle owner/leaser can have. Cleanliness.
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Bob in Inspiration
Student Instruction & Great Instructors
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...When it comes to learning, I think that the best way to get things into any person’s brain is to have them teach it. I have been following this philosophy for about 6 years now and have not had it fail me once. People, without fail, are forced to examine underlying areas of topics that would go without notice if they were to be simply handed the knowledge and forced to move on, as with most assembly line teaching.
As a student teacher it should be a high priority to not only understand it, but to be able to explain it clearly to a group of people that may or may not understand it already. Its important to have a mix of both because correcting teachers is something that you will need to become accustomed to. I prefer to be involved in teachers lesson plans and the way they teach tends to rub off on me. I have worked along side quite a few instructors as I have been learning and it has caused me to question many things I see in other instructors. Having the experience of standing up in front of 30 some odd people, of varied intellects and wills, is difficult, but it is a necessity for our culture to be able to teach masses of people to learn a lot of information in a short period of time. Slowly but surely algebra is being taught to lower grades and more important higher level classes are becoming available. We all have to work together to really be able to wrap our minds around our chosen professions, whatever they may be.
Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Bob in Inspiration
traffic Racing - First one to 35 wins.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...One of the more irritating things about living in the Silicon Valley is traffic. I spend nearly an hour a day trying to get where I should already be, and unfortunately It’s very boring. I’ve tried following an imaginary dirt bike as it jumps telephone wires along the highway or brushing my hair, and even trying to incite a riot. All of the above only lasted me a few minutes and eventually drove me into deeper veins of boredom and eventually to my most brilliant idea ever, while steaming in traffic.
Posted on June 7th, 2007 by Bob in Random
$a is insufficient. $thevar is just lame.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Over the last month I have been spending time out of my day to watch some of the web casted classes that are being offered by UC Berkeley and my eyes have been opened. I am indeed a programmer and know where my calling is. That said, I had a recent epiphany when one of the instructors said something oddly influential.
“When you feel like putting in one of those single lined comments, that’s usually when you should be thinking about rewriting your code.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Bob in Random
Organization: How cars and software development relate
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It may go without much notice to those who use applications, but a lot of planning went into the development of it. There is time spent on the algorithms efficiency, the overall efficiency, the usability of the application and much more than I can relate in a paragraph on a blog. It would also probably surprise some of you that as much as thirty to fifty percent of my time is spent on organizing and updating old information before I code.
Posted on December 11th, 2006 by Bob in Application Development, Game Development