I am not sure how this one got into my head, but it did. I don’t know why a lot of things enter my thought maker, but they are constantly generated and flowing. What do I do? Well I am a Software Developer. For the most part of my career I have done web based stuff. I have a profile page of my latest work that I have put together. These are my personal web projects, I was not paid to do them. I have dabbled with ASPX Webforms, ASPX MVC, and PHP. The server-side technologies really don’t matter if you asked me. Whatever you can do in one, you can do in the other. I have parsed files, compressed files, provided a data feed via asynchronous javascript GET/POST requests, provided CSV data dumps on the fly from querying databases whether they were SQL Server or MySQL, provided handlers for byte array data fields ( these are mostly image renderers ), and created many many different forms on both technology stacks.

What really makes an interesting web page if you asked me, is seamless flow, ease of use, and content. People want sites that are quick and responsive. No one wants to pan and pinch to view a page, it should just work. That’s been the big shift. Most people view web content from a mobile device of some sort. But it would be tedious to deliver a web site for both desktop and mobile, so in comes responsive. I am big fan. The media queries and grid templates I get conceptually, I typically grab a template and tweak on it to fit my needs. I don’t write them from scratch, I am thankful for the CSS gurus that crank that stuff out, you are wonderful people.

I really miss web development professionally. My current full time job does not have that available to me. I do moonlight and do contract work for web development on a project that I have been working on for the last 10 years, let me tell you it is exhilarating to work with code not only that you wrote yourself, but are the final say as to what it gets published and deployed. See the last two programming jobs I have had, allowed for developers to build and design with very little say in what the actual code looks like. If the final product did the job, well they didn’t really care what under the hood looked like.

Lately I have struggled with different mentalities on writing code. Because now I don’t work solely by myself on projects. The code I work on is not mine, and there are all kinds of standards to follow, and its frustrating that not all ideas are accepted, and at times there appears to be only one way to do things and that is defined by those who feel its the right way. That’s debatable in my opinion, not that it really matters.

BUT I do like getting to work on stuff that I wrote again. See kids when you get a programming job, and you are the guy, stay there. Typically the company will pay you well, and leave you alone to crank out code. This has been my first gig where software is what makes the company money, and its a big change from what I call a support role as an IT professional. Believe me the latter is far more rewarding and far less stressful. You can be a code god as you should be.

Author: admin

Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.