Category : Why I Do This

The Passionate Programmer

January 7th, 2010 by stevi | 1 comment

A few years ago, right about the time I learned my job was to be outsourced, I remember seeing a book in the bookstore titled My Job Went to India. I assumed it was a parody of sorts and decided to resist the urge to pick it up.
It wasn’t until I read the introduction [...]

How did you get started in software development?

June 24th, 2008 by stevi | 1 comment

Michael Eaton asks: how did you get started in software development, and I’m answering.
How old were you when you started programming? I’m another late bloomer. I remember having access to an early edition Macintosh for a short period when I was 13 or so, but it didn’t take. I didn’t really start programming until [...]

Making the job worthwhile

March 21st, 2008 by stevi | 0

We had a very fruitful. frank conversation with the business analyst for the main project I’ve been working on for the last two years. We discovered a lot of the pain points for users and now know there’s concrete things we can do in the next sprint or two to really help them out.
But what [...]