Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on ASPE’s blog. It’s late Saturday night. You rub your eyes and look away from the computer screen for a blissful few seconds, the first time in hours. The weekend elevation of your company’s latest application that will “save the company” started a day ago. It hasn’t gone smoothly.… Read More
The Build vs. Buy Decision Tree
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Scalyr’s blog. Chocolate or vanilla? Pancakes or waffles? Coke or Pepsi? We decide between similar choices every day. Some of us have preferences, and other times it’s just a feeling in the moment. A common decision in the IT world is the “build vs buy” decision. Sometimes this… Read More
Time Wasters for Programmers and How to Avoid Them
Editor’s Note: This blog post originally appeared on SubMain’s blog. You can find the original post here. Check SubMain out if you want to develop quality code even in a time crunch. Time is one resource we can’t replenish, and time wasters sap that precious resource. For programmers, using your time wisely can be the… Read More
Guest Post on Simple Programmer: History of Women in Software Engineering
It’s a little late, but I wanted to make sure I have a link to my latest Simple Programmer guest post. The post explores some of the women that have made major contributions to the world of software engineering from the beginning of computers to today. Check it out! https://simpleprogrammer.com/2017/09/18/female-software-engineers/
The Great Certificate Debate–Are Security Certifications Worth It?
I recently stumbled upon an article claiming, quite strongly, that security certifications are worthless and causing more harm than good. This struck a cord with me because I became Security+ certified last year and recently got my CSSLP. Did I just waste my time and money on these certifications? This is certainly not the first… Read More
Passing the CSSLP Exam
In a bit of exciting news for me, I recently passed the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional certification exam from (ISC)2. This is a big accomplishment for me. I wanted to share my experience in studying for this exam as well as why I feel a certification like this is important for the development community.… Read More
Two P’s of Programming–Persistence and Patience
It was time to put our new vendor product into a new environment, our integration environment. This was a big deal because we previously installed it manually in our development environment and this is the first time that we would be using an automated build/deploy process to install it into our new region. We would… Read More