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By J. Timothy King on September 19, 2013
…I’ve moved all my software-development posts over to my new software-development blog, where I’m currently in the midst of a series chronicling my evaluation of Perl 6. At least since the mid 2000’s, when I wrote about software, I tried to keep it popular, non-techie, or at least about the culture rather than the coding. […]
Posted in Software Development | Tagged programming, software engineering |
By J. Timothy King on July 5, 2012
Developing software is supposed to be one of the best jobs available, because it uses creativity, and it requires professional independence. And those software jobs are out there. But some of us are not currently working one of those jobs. In early 2009, I wrote a post entitled “7 Best Things About Being a Consulting […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged biography, depression, programming, software engineering, stress |
By J. Timothy King on October 12, 2011
I wasn’t intending to post anything today. As I promised yesterday, I wrote this morning until 9 AM, but not a post on this blog. (Instead, I made progress on a longer piece for my Ardor Point site.) And then I caught up on a comment thread between Darryl (whom I don’t think I know) […]
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By J. Timothy King on March 17, 2010
Another part of this series of posts, “Depression and the Software Developer.” This latest story I started on Monday, part 4 of “Depression and the Software Developer”. [Note: You can read the story from the beginning in order to catch up.] No client or employer will ever admit to you that he doesn’t want to […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged biography, depression, programming, software engineering, stress |
By J. Timothy King on March 15, 2010
Here’s a story I’ve been keeping on the back burner for almost a year now. I haven’t published it until now, because it still hit too close to home. But this week, I’ve scheduled an interview with Sharon Cathcart, author of In the Eye of the Beholder, which I am currently reading, and a memoir […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged biography, depression, programming, software engineering, stress |
By J. Timothy King on July 28, 2009
This morning, at my daughter’s sleep study, as we were waking up, I had a profoundly encouraging and empowering daydream. It wasn’t an intentional visualization, something I wanted to see come about, but purely a spontaneous daydream, of the sort that encroaches upon your consciousness in those fuzzy moments just after you awake. Last night, […]
Posted in Inspiration, Job-seeking, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged career, dreams, interviewing, programming, psychology |
By J. Timothy King on July 27, 2009
I’ve been updating my software-development résumé, trying some different things in hopes of finding a reasonably productive SD gig. Along the way, I think I may rub a few people wrong, but I think it’s for the best. Because it’s the only way I know to ultimately accomplish my goals. There’s something about the truly […]
Posted in Books, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Love through the Eyes of an Idiot, Software Development | Tagged career, depression, dreams, hope, love, programming |
By J. Timothy King on July 21, 2009
This blog post is intended to sabotage any chance that I’ll get a “normal” software-engineering job, because I don’t think I could ever go back to a “normal” job.
Posted in Job-seeking, Software Development | Tagged career, interviewing, programming |
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 April 21, 2009
(This is a continuation from part 2 of “Depression and the Software Developer”.) [Note: This is a recounting of an experience from several years ago. Read the story from the beginning in order to catch up.] According to psychologist Joe Griffin, the cycle of depression starts when innate needs are not being met. Among these […]
Posted in Confessions of a Veteran Software Developer, Personal Improvement, Software Development, Stories, True Stories | Tagged biography, depression, Ivan Tyrrell, Joe Griffin, programming, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Software Development, software engineering, stress |