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November 3rd, 2008
Today was my first day at VendAsta. Despite being incredibly sick, it was an awesome day. Everyone was super helpful and friendly. The coffee machine there absolutely lived up to its stellar reputation. And I am starting to get my groove on with the MacBook Pro.
Perhaps the thing I was most impressed with today, was [...]
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October 28th, 2008
As any experienced programmer knows, using existing, well proven code for new applications can greatly reduce development time. It can also remove some of the uncertainty in a project by reusing code that is a known quantity. In addition to reusing code you or a teammate has used already in a current or past project, [...]
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October 20th, 2008
This morning I gave my two weeks’ notice at Cover-All. I have been there for three and a half years, but the time has come to move on. I have secured myself a programming position at VendAsta, a very progressive software development company here in Saskatoon. This move represents a very significant change in direction [...]
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September 8th, 2008
It’s been a while since I have posted anything here, but I am always willing to step up in the face of a challenge from across the pond! Philip as has posted to his blog a series of questions regarding how he got started in Software Development and he has challenged me, among others, to [...]
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June 23rd, 2007
Wow! It has been a crazy few months. This past Monday we rolled out our new ordering system – a system that has been in the works for 17 months and was completely re-done in the past three. As I have mentioned here before, we were working on implementing DriveWorks, automation software for SolidWorks. Our [...]
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