I can’t count how many times I’ve been told to act professional when it comes to writing emails at work. Despite how hard I’ve been trying, it’s really hard to separate the way I usually speak my mind in text and how I should talk when I’m writing a work-related email. This has been a problem in my career for a long time and I was only able to realize it when I started working for my current employer....
A few weeks ago, I applied for a variable life insurance through a friend who’s a financial agent. Well, I went through it despite my mother asking me to consult her first. She used to be an insurance agent, so she knows what’s up. I never realize how much of a mistake I was making until she pointed it out. She said I was basically screwing myself over because of my ignorance on the subject....
One of the hardest things to do is to think outside the box. The fact that you have to completely disregard what you’ve already thought and think of something new and different than the previous one is one of the most frustrating experiences that happen frequently in a programmer’s life. Let me tell you about something that happened to me a few weeks ago. In one of my client projects, a Twitter application, the client asked me to have the application update the existing Twitter users' information every now and then, so we would have the latest info on them....
It’s been a couple of days since the recent PhRUG August meetup. It was the first ever meetup that I have organized as the new boss for the Philippine Ruby Users Group. This post isn’t about bragging. I just wanted to share how my journey with Ruby has been very surreal to me. 9 months ago, I barely knew anything about Rails or Ruby. I was just some kid who recently got out of college and trying to find his way into the industry....
I was browsing Reddit today when I saw this picture from this thread: This reminded me of something that has been bothering for a long time now: Almost everyone tends to talk about what they do instead of actually doing it. This is pretty common among my college friends who are also programmers on Facebook and Twitter. It’s kind of funny because even my friends are noticing this. One of them even mentioned that the first thing people do when they want to get busy is to tell other people on Facebook and Twitter that they are and then end up getting sucked in by the Internet instead....