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There are a lot of things in our lives that we cling to emotionally.  There are things in our society that we find important enough to have a general expectation of remembrance for.  Most of these things are important events.  The date of our wedding.  Our birthdays.  Graduation dates.  The date of a significant religious conversion or ceremony.

Then there are those dates that are significant to us personally that mean absolutely nothing to anybody else in our society or even the world. Read the rest of this entry »

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I thought that it might be time to give an update.  I have been very busy over with the agile evangelists at Integrum Technologies and have been loving every minute of all the things I’ve managed to absorb in the past few months.  My conversion to Rails has been drastically better than my past experience of learning other languages.  Within weeks I felt confident enough to start my own side projects and dive head-first into things that I used to wait months to fully understand how to do with previous conversions.

I have come to gain a very solid appreciation of AJAX, as long as it is done unobtrusively. I’ve also come to love the purpose and structure that a good MVC framework can provide.  I’ve come to swear by TextMate.  I can’t imagine managing a web project again without it.  I’ve found that pair programming provides amazing benefits that can never be guessed at until you’ve tried it yourself. I’ve found that my errors and refactoring due to pair programming have been exponentially improved and that my development style in general has become more efficent, more detailed, and more well-thought than in the past (in much less time).  I’ve also found that agile methodology as a method of software development just makes sense (for me at least).  Software (especially web based applications or sites) are constantly changing in their requirements, goals, needs, and acceptence criteria.  Agile methodology ties in perfectly with this dynamic lifestyle of software growth.

As to the other things that I’ve been up to, well I’ve started at least three side-projects Read the rest of this entry »

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What began as a simple goal of making my blog look better a few weeks ago became a sudden priority last night after being told that I won’t be employed with my current employer after this week essentially.  I need to put a good face forward and since my blog is the first thing that comes up when you Google my name, I decided to put in an all-nighter and get business taken care of.  

So thusly, welcome to my new theme for StevenHaddox.com. Read the rest of this entry »

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A relative of mine posted this and thought all of her family had already done it, so I suppose I can’t let her down eh? Here goes nothing.

10 years ago I… was a freshman at Hurricane Middle School and I listened primarily to Backstreet Boys. I was uber geeky, spiritual, and the overall goody-goody. Life consisted of homework, wishing I wasn’t harassed so much at school, and my family. Man I wish life was still that easy today. Read the rest of this entry »

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Somedays you feel like you get nothing done no matter how hard you try.  I’ve had way too many of those lately.  Today was “one of those days” - in a good way.

Things I accomplished today (with help of the extended family while helping them on their projects as well):

• Weeded the entire lot (again)
• Cleared the house of pigeon residents
• Changed all the burned out light bulbs throughout the vaulted ceilings
• Helped paint several walls at a condo in Mesa
• Found several great deals at the Scrapbooks, Etc. store in Mesa
• Removed a stupid ad ware / spy ware piece of garbage from extended family’s computer (I hate Windows) while they changed my oil and filter ;)
• Woke up at 8 am on a Saturday, which is probably why I’m so exhausted at 7:45 pm

Anyway, I’ll try to blog about more important things some other time, but I did want to get this down so when I’m having “one of those days” in a bad way I can remember there are some days when so much more gets done than one could ever anticipate.

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