Today was a long day at the office.  A crop of bugs popped up, and I was basically the only person on our team in Westminster today.  That meant it was up to me to triage the bugs and determine the best possible course of action.  I tend to do this best when I have […]

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Today was another long day at the office, but at least I was prepared for this one (scheduled late meeting to accommodate many time zones).  For this reason, my evening was fragmented into many different tasks, notably watching the American Idol finale, eating dinner, watching Eve while Tasha had her night out, and working on […]

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Today was a little different… Tasha got called to jury duty, so I got to work from home for the first half of the day (enjoying a little extra Eve time is always good!)  Luckily, she didn’t get selected and got to come home.  I always get a lot done when I’m working from home, […]

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Talk about jumping right into the fray today… I got to the office and we quickly realized that there was a big wrinkle in the code that we were working on, so the rest of the day quickly evaporated into debugging and looking for creative solutions to the problem.  Days like this slip by quickly, […]

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In my career, I have found that I have increasingly edged toward the need to people-please.  This becomes increasingly difficult as I fill a role that requires me to consider technical guidelines, hoping to enforce code quality.  With a job like that, you’re bound to ruffle feathers and have differences of opinion with others.  Even […]

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The first C# tool that I’ve been looking at is NCover, a very popular piece of software intended to do static code analysis and integrate with a build system.  NCover primarily focuses on calculating unit test coverage and cyclomatic complexity, two undeniably good metrics to drive test driven development and build maintainable code.  NCover has […]

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Today was a good one at the office, I got caught up with some loose ends that have been trailing since last week.  This allowed me to participate in some discussions on code quality and how to enforce it in our organization, which is going to require me to research testing enforcement, code equality, and […]

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Today was an interesting day at the office.  I knew that my day was going to get punctuated by Eve’s one-month check up, so I went to the office with the intent of having two productive segments of my day and it worked out very well.  I got a bug fixed before a meeting, fostered […]

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This morning I awoke at 5:00 am to get ready for Kangeiko, Day 2.  I was downstairs around 5:15 am, expecting my buddy Paul to pick me up around 5:20 am.  By the time 5:30 rolled around, I was wondering why he was running late.  I texted him, and about ten minutes later I called […]

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Tonight was only a mildly late night at the office, followed by a nice night of getting caught up on American Idol.  I really like Steven Tyler as a new judge, he’s funny and seems to genuinely enjoy the good contestants.  Now I’m getting online to finish up a few unit tests in order to […]

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