Teaching on Your Struggles

Happy New Year everyone! I decided to delay this posting until a few days after the New Year actually started in order to give us all time to “settle in.” Flush with the excitement of champagne corks popping and fireworks lighting the sky, it is a bit too easy to…

It was one of the oddest moments I can remember. I was 23 years old—and as was often the case during this time, I was deep in conversation with Jones. I can’t recall exactly what he was explaining, but I do remember that I certainly had something to say about…

This is in no way a rant designed to urge you not to watch the Super Bowl. Frankly, I won’t know (or care) whether you do or don’t. Personally however, after having watched at least some of every Super Bowl for the past forty years–and actually attending one–I will not…

This week, Andy has Solutions Architect Steve Woods in the studio to talk about how programming has evolved, why businesses are trying to lose their “technical debt”, and how people would rather live with a problem they cannot solve, than accept a solution they do not understand. Tune in to…

I was the only man in the room. When I had entered several minutes before, I knew that the situation was beyond anything I could’ve imagined. I was about to talk to 12 women in bathrobes. Their hair still wet from showers, they wore towels on their heads wrapped like…