Not average
and proud of it!
I’ve been programming for a number of years now and this past Saturday finally got around to taking the Zend certification exam for PHP 5 (PHP is the main language I work in).
And I passed! Woo hoo! So now I can get letters after my name to show that I’m more important that you. [...]
I’m seeing it all the time now. People are posting questions in online forums that could easily be answered with a little thinking or experimenting. But instead of exercising their cognition, the question is thrown to the world in hopes that the answer will effortlessly bounce back.
And that results in an answer but no knowledge.
This [...]
Lately it seems that every other day there’s some new hurdle to get over, some new obstacle to overcome, some new patch of ice to slip on. Just when I feel good about the direction I’m heading, something comes along to slow me down or push me on a tangent. How do we keep going [...]