Knowledge Management

When I'm in meetings, I try to take notes. There are TODO items, things I'd like to remember and questions I might want to ask about. The problem is that I don't have a good way of taking this information and easily using it when I'm doing the work. All…

Relearning JavaScript

I've started to relearn JavaScript after taking a long hiatus. When I first started coding I certainly had the naiveté of youth and jumped on the bandwagon when it came to dissing JavaScript. Thanks to libraries like Prototype [http://prototypejs.org/], I realized it had a lot of really interesting…

Personal READMEs and User Manuals

I've heard that manager READMEs are bad [https://medium.com/@skamille/i-hate-manager-readmes-20a0dd9a70d0]. The criticism revolves around these documents ultimately being self serving by giving the author a way to justify acting in the wrong. For example, if I write in my README that "I don't handle criticism well" and I…

Reboot!

Long ago I used my blog as a means of learning things like programming languages, databases, etc. It was fun for a while, but I always got hung up on making it easier to blog. As I became more focused as a programmer, I spent even more time trying out…