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Monthly Archive January, 2009

A Culture of Trust

Mark Mzyk January 16, 2009

A culture of trust would be the ultimate corporate environment.  Just uttering the phrase brings to mind visions of the ideal work environment.  Fill in the blanks however you see fit, but for me it would be having a say in the projects I work on and being left to my own devices to determine [...]

Management,Software Engineering - 2 Comments


Ruby Range Mnemonic

Mark Mzyk January 11, 2009

While currently working to learn Ruby, I keep forgetting the meaning of each of the range syntaxes, the difference between .. and … . I’ve developed a mnemonic to help me. 1..10 is the Ruby inclusive syntax, so 10 would be included in the values. 1…10 is the Ruby exclusive syntax, so 10 would be [...]

Programming - 2 Comments


Glory and Success

Mark Mzyk January 10, 2009

Glory and success are not a destination, they are a point of origin – Chef Baglio Bob Martin saw this quote and riffed on it in this blog post. Bob takes it to mean that even after attaining glory and success, you’ve only just reached the beginning point and it is from there that you [...]

General - 0 Comments