It was a long day today… spent dutifully refactoring code.  My day ended up quite sourly with a late meeting from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm… sadly positioned at that time in order to accomodate three remote teams.  It seems those meetings will continue in this fashion twice a month.  Not a major price to […]

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Today was a pretty average day at work… we had a somewhat thorny design problem to work out and after that my day was punctuated with pop-ins.  Normally this gets annoying after awhile, but it helped me get refreshed on a bunch of different topics and it made the day go by quickly.  The 80+ […]

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Today marked Tasha’s first Mother’s Day, and we were pretty busy!  Things started off with 9:30 am Church followed by breakfast at Denny’s (Tasha’s choice).  Surprisingly, it wasn’t as busy in there as we expected so we got right in.  After that, it was back to the house for a bit and then back to […]

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Today was a truly colossal day of enjoying nerd culture.  I joined Paul Ballew and Teague in a three-phase excursion to get as much nerding as possible done in one day.  We began the day with a noon matinee of Thor, which was much better than I expected.  The effects were great, the storyline enthralling, […]

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Tonight was the last Jam Night at Walton Manor for awhile.  Paul and Kara are two weeks away from welcoming their own bundle of joy into the world, but that didn’t keep us from getting together and playing some music.  I was pleasantly surprised that Tasha wanted to come along, so the family piled into […]

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We had a doctor’s check-up for Tasha (everything’s fine!) and after that she asked to have the evening to get some shopping done and spend a little non-baby time.  So Eve and I were left to fend for ourselves for a few hours tonight.  She had a bottle and then quickly conked out, sleeping in […]

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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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I can remember clearly walking out of my Artificial Intelligence exam to see the reports of an accident: a plane had flown into the Twin Towers in New York.  A few minutes later, another plane crashed into the other tower as the news cameras rolled.  As the day unfolded, we discovered it was not an […]

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