{"id":1916,"date":"2009-10-12T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T23:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2020-05-09T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:43:28","slug":"monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/12\/monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good day at work with <strong>NAME BRAND CORPORATION<\/strong> today. I had been fairly worried about it being a long and painful session because of <strong>REDACTED<\/strong>. It wound up being long, but not at all painful. It was simply the structured working through of a bunch of small but important issues. Honestly, I&#8217;ve rarely seen six adults actually act quite so much like adults for a whole work day. Nifty. Signed up for a bunch of deliverables and another trip in three weeks to wrap things up &#8211; and that ought to be that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading <a>Coders at Work: Reflections on the craft of programming<\/a> which is a book that&#8217;s making me wonder if I was ever really a programmer. I mean, I say jokingly now that I used to be a programmer and now I write PERL. Still, as with many such things, he makes me realize that I fail on more than that one front. The outright hackers at the beginning of the book (<a href=\"http:\/\/jwz.livejournal.com\/\">jwz<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/brad.livejournal.com\/\">brad<\/a>) give way to the more formal sorts of gods &#8211; ending with Donald Knuth &#8230; and I&#8217;m really neither. Still, it&#8217;s nice to hear that even the best programmers spend hours flailing at a perceived bug before realizing that they&#8217;re calling the wrong binary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;m on the train again, headed to BWI. Once there I&#8217;ll get a car and check into my schwank bed and breakfast. In the morning it&#8217;s off to do something totally different for <strong>NAME BRAND UNIVERSITY<\/strong>. On Wed we&#8217;re on to <strong>NAME BRAND MILITARY RESEARCH LAB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, my life. Sometimes stressful and sometimes a bit tiring &#8230; but I wouldn&#8217;t trade it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day at work with NAME BRAND CORPORATION today. I had been fairly worried about it being a long and painful session because of REDACTED. It wound up being long, but not at all painful. It was simply the structured working through of a bunch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,61,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting","category-just-bloggin","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}