Dear family: a letter about software

I’m starting a new job on Monday as an engineer at Pivotal Software. I’m really excited about it! I’ll be working on their Cloud Foundry project, which is an open source PaaS that facilitates rapid deployment and scaling of apps, making it easier to ….. …. I…

Education Beyond Boundaries

It was a usual weekday, bright and sunny, here in California. The usual busy-ness, scrambling between home, work, kids and more work. As I drove from the foundation office to pick up my son from his school, I noticed, as I usually do, the American flag flying high in front of the…

I was with you until the part where you decide to shrink the code size. That exercise reminds me of the insanity that is C obfuscation competition.

Rule one in writing code is that you will write it once. Rules two is that it will likely be read by others and yourself many times. Don’t make life miserable for others and your…

This should never be the case: either your relationship with your customer is flawed or the hiring manager hired developers who aren’t passionate about the field (or inexperienced management). Nearly every job has interesting problems to solve better than anyone else has solved before. More likely, you’re stuck in local minima — a problem I had to…