http://www.ifisgeek.com Look! A New Doot! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:23:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I have been working and living with a MacBook Pro for a few weeks now and I have to say I'm liking it a lot more than I had thought I would. I am starting to get the hang of how everything works and I am very happy about ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/11/19/machackin/ The second Spokesmonster video which I made reference to in A Taste of VendAsta, A Side of Mac has now been posted to YouTube. Embedded below for your pleasure. http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/11/04/second-spokesmonster-video-on-youtube/ 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 ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/11/03/vendasta-day-1/ On Friday I got my first taste of what it will be like working at VendAsta. I went there Friday afternoon to pick up my laptop - a MacBook Pro which I am using to write this. I have never worked with Macs before, so this is a somewhat novel ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/11/02/a-taste-of-vendasta-a-side-of-mac/ 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 ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/10/28/copy-and-paste-does-not-a-programmer-make/ Today was the first weekday of my post-Cover-All life. I had thought that it might be weird sleeping in and not going to work today but it was actually a great day. I got to spend a bunch of time with Kaelyn and watch a few episodes of Ken Burns' ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/10/27/end-of-an-era/ 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 ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/10/20/paradigm-shift/ 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 ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/09/08/how-i-got-started-in-software-development/ Well, Lindsay and I are now back from our trip to Jamaica. We were down there for the Cover-All Worldwide Dealer Conference, where Cover-All dealers from around the world came together to learn about the latest and greatest, and more importantly, all get nicely. The trip was less of a ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2008/03/08/jamaican-returns/ Seinfeldian Chains I am a huge fan of the productivity blog Lifehacker. I try my best to check out the site on a daily basis and am usually rewarded with a little tidbit or tool that helps to make my life much easier - it's not all about Getting Things Done ... http://www.ifisgeek.com/2007/08/15/build-multiple-productive-habits-with-scoreboards/