By J. Timothy King on May 30, 2013
A couple weeks ago, I was reading through Andy Hertzfeld’s anecdotes at FolkLore.org, about how he and his colleagues developed the original Macintosh. These stories brought me back, first to nostalgic times, then to a nostalgic purpose. I remembered all the reasons I first fell in love with software development, many of which are also […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged Apple, computers, Damon/IEC, history, innovation, Macintosh, software engineering |
By J. Timothy King on July 20, 2009
The biggest block of time in my software-development career I spent working in an extraordinary job, a very special place to work, with a very special group of people, for 14 years. Throughout the dot-com boom, I stayed there, ignoring the promises of exciting work and increased salary. But before I worked there, I tried […]
Posted in Leaving Normal, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged career, Damon/IEC, EFG, Kurzweil Music Systems, programming |
By J. Timothy King on March 21, 2009
One way to deal with poor communication on a software project is simply to ignore the people around you and do what you wanted to do anyhow. Of course, this strategy can backfire, especially if you don’t know what you’re doing. But in that case, you probably won’t know enough to notice it backfiring, so […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Humor, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged communication, Damon/IEC, innovation, programming, software engineering