{"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\u2019ve 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 \u2013 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\u2019s 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 \u2013 ending with Donald Knuth \u2026 and I\u2019m really neither. Still, it\u2019s nice to hear that even the best programmers spend hours flailing at a perceived bug before realizing that they\u2019re calling the wrong binary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I\u2019m on the train again, headed to BWI. Once there I\u2019ll get a car and check into my schwank bed and breakfast. In the morning it\u2019s off to do something totally different for <strong>NAME BRAND UNIVERSITY<\/strong>. On Wed we\u2019re 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 \u2026 but I wouldn\u2019t 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}]}}