heathlilley

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by heathlilley 13y ago
I wish I knew how much I didn't know. Self-awareness for the win.
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by heathlilley 14y ago
He and his coworkers might not have been "Senior" before and they still might not be fully senior, but they are MUCH closer now. >Ding! >Gratz!
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by heathlilley 14y ago
Kobayashi Maru If you can't find a solution, change the problem. I have had great success in re-working the requirement when something seemingly impossible has been proposed by a user. IMHO, this is because what makes something impossible
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by heathlilley 14y ago
I remember talking to a previous boss saying, "I've been thinking of starting skunk works project 'X'. Where 'X' was introducing an ORM, JQuery, or cleaning up some old code/modules. And the answer was always "I'd rather you work on the b
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by heathlilley 14y ago
Well I'm here to say that you can break the shackles. At 37 I might still toil in the Java mines during the day, but at night I am learning Ruby, Rails, NoSQL, zsh and other Open Source/less than enterprisey stuff. I might not be able to d
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by heathlilley 14y ago
I think of it like this, Craftsmanship is about having the discipline to dot 'i's and cross 't's. It's about scrubbing out the pans after your done cooking a meal, because while you might be able to keep reusing a skillet without cleaning
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by heathlilley 14y ago
Sounds like something out of Dune.
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by heathlilley 14y ago
I agree, that is why it's up to the developer to improve their skills if they don't want to keep writing Action classes and POJO JDBC classes for that legacy Struts 1.1 webapp.
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by heathlilley 14y ago
This is similar to a realization I had a few years ago about my own career and training. I got it in my head that my company should provide training to use the newest technologies for their benefit. It only took a few years of the "it's n
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by heathlilley 14y ago
Usually reserved for legacy databases with lots of custom queries and jdbc code, mybatis (previously ibatis) is a pretty flexible solution. Hooks into Spring pretty well too. http://www.mybatis.org/core/
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by heathlilley 14y ago
IMHO this the "Get's things done." part of the developer skill set defined by Joel Spolsky. A wizard at solving problems without an eye on maintainability or the long term picture. The antithesis of this is the "Smart" guy who can design t
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by heathlilley 14y ago
Because you can't make money off somebody's creativity unless you can control and direct it.
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by heathlilley 14y ago
It reminds me of something my father told me when I was figuring out what to take in college..."Find something you like to do and you will never work another day in your life." His advice was not absolute, there are bad days, but overall he
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Integration vs Unit Tests(codeproject.com)
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by heathlilley 15y ago
Whining ---------------------------> Fixing Asking for permission -------------> Asking for Forgiveness (Professionally) Gaming as a hobby -----------------> Learning as a hobby Working hard ----------------------&#62
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by heathlilley 16y ago
I think there is something incredibly powerful about a continuous integration system that is fully bootstrapped. Being able to know the instant something is broken and run a single build script after a SCM check out to have a fully functio
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by heathlilley 16y ago
Also beware the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" types who always view system design and framework suggestions as general programmer whining and thus not worth investing any time. A lot of times this is true but prolonged adherence to this
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by heathlilley 16y ago
Are you talking about learning new tech or just coding? I can't separate the 2, I don't feel qualified to know something unless I have coded it. I did lose my desire to learn though... 6 years ago, my career turned into a job. This was pa