Startup vet with a coding habit
When consultants handed me a foot-high stack of 1800 accounting formulas to program, I spent three days sure I’d fail like the previous team. Then I had an epiphany: I didn’t need to understand every formula—just recognize the patterns and build a tool that could handle any formula of each type. Sometimes the best solution isn’t implementing exactly what they asked for.
Paul Kimmel recently wrote an article for informit.com entitled "Anonymous Methods in C# 2.0" where he made the following statement: Linguistically, I love methods, but as a practical matter anonymous methods may just be an example of some inventive person at Microsoft being a bit too clever. Unfortunately that was the pull-quote used to promote the …
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Ah the memories Eric Lippert’s blog post about partial order sorting was, as always, interesting and well written. However, this specific post brought back memories of a project I did for Gateway Foods of Lacrosse Wisconsin back in the early 90’s. (I googled them and they don’t appear to no longer exist.) Though my project …
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As my second post I guess I’ll tell potential readers a little about myself and my company. I live in Atlanta, Georgia USA where I have lived most of my life. From 1981 to 1988 I attended Georgia Tech to get a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and an "honorary" degree in Computer Science. I gave …