And it begins…
I couldn’t think of a clever title for the re-launch of the site, but suffice it to say that the crappy WordPress template is gone, replaced by a slightly less crappy template of my own design. The header image was taken by a friend of mine, and is a shot of the sunset over the Izembek Lagoon [map]. Alaska is truly a unique place, and I can’t recommend strongly enough that people visit there someday, should they get the chance.
That said, the style of the blog doesn’t really have a whole lot of meaning to convey (graphic designers everywhere just felt a disturbance in the Force). I intend, over the next several months, to write a series of articles about developing software: both things that are well-defined, as well as processes that are lacking. My experience in some areas may be a bit scarce, but undoubtedly writing about something is a fantastic way to learn, and as software developers, if we’re not constantly learning, we’re gradually becoming obsolete.
I’ll close with a note about the blog title: Fractions of a Penny. It’s an allusion to the cult classic, Office Space. One of the characters, Michael Bolton, a scrawny Software Engineer commits a fatal mistake, and in a moment of utter regret, offers the following:
Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place
or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane
detail.
That single quote sums up so much about software development today, 10 years later! It’s to that end that I hope to use this blog as a sort of mental unloading place to keep some of the more valuable things I learn about design, architecture, testing, and deployment.
Stay tuned.