Category: Programming

As requested here is a summary of my git observations after having used it a little this Fall semester 2011. Disclaimer: I have only minimal experience with git and yet here I am writing up an evaluation – reader beware. There may well be functionality in git that address these issues that I do not […]

Only 3 weeks left in this my first semester back. After this I only have 2 classes left to have my BSCS (a math and a physics) which I began in 1980. I was this close 20 years ago (after leaving campus, working for a while then going back to school the first time). But […]

Time flies when having fun. Only 4 weeks left in my first semester back in school. It’s been fun in every way. A little more challenging than I expected. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to go back to school. Most people don’t get the chance even if they want to. It was interesting […]

When I was last employed the Agile movement was just getting started and I didn’t hear about it until probably the mid 2000s. I haven’t really experienced Agile development in a formal sense. But it was happening all the while without us realizing that it needed a name. Since then I’ve been hearing about it, […]

Yet another computer science figure passed away; John McCarthy, the computer scientist who coined the term “artificial intelligence” in 1955, and founder of LISP died Monday at age 84. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29 Apparently exam 2 was tougher than I thought. Actually I don’t think it was hard or tough. “Obviously” I am an awesome software engineer but […]