I’ve been programming professionally now since 2007. The one thing that still causes me problems is starting fresh on something. Fred Brooks once wrote: The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. The biggest problem I’ve had [...]
In my professional life, I’ve had two software development jobs so far. One has been an academic programming job, and the other being a mobile developer for SpiderOak (check it out, I think we’re really cool, and so should you:
I work professionally as a programmer at an atmospheric science department at a major university. One of the biggest things about atmospheric research is our reliance on computers for everything. While we’re nowhere near the limit of what we can do with observational data (and indeed in many areas, observational data is woefully short), there [...]