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I wish I knew how much I didn't know. Self-awareness for the win.

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!

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 u…

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/module…

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 S…

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 yo…

Sounds like something out of Dune.

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.

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 …

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:…

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.…

Because you can't make money off somebody's creativity unless you can control and direct it.

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…

Whining ---------------------------> Fixing Asking for permission -------------> Asking for Forgiveness (Professionally) Gaming as a hobby -----------------> Learning as a hobby Wo…

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…

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. …

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 thoug…