I have always felt that being a good software developer means that you are continually learning new technology and techniques. Just doing this is not enough though, as a person you also need to learn about life.
I have challenges in life and sometimes I need to lean how to solve these in the same way I would have to find a solution to developing some technology.
There have been a number of people that have inspired and helped me on my life journey, including Tony Robins.
Recently I came across Lars Pind who not only is a fellow geek but also a life coach. I actually first got to know about Lars when he produced a video on Productivity for Programmers over at peepcode.com
Lars runs a website coachtvblog.com where he produces regular videos on different life subjects. I especially enjoy him talking about what he calls Spiritual Entrepreneurship.
The current Birtish Prime Minister and future running give our country no inspiration. We need someone like Barack Obama to bring a breath of fresh air to the government.
A company called Bloxx, based in London UK, posted a job at jobs.joelonsoftware.com this morning and I thought their description of the type of engineer they wanted to recruit was just perfect.
We are looking to hire a software developer confident enough to describe their own skills as excellent.
The problem is, like those so called singers that audition on the X-Factor and can’t sing to save their life, sometimes delusion is not a good thing.
Since I’ve become a full-time freelancer, I’ve found one of the hardest things to do is to get up early. Without the threat of being fired, there just hasn’t been a whole lot of motivation to get out of bed in a timely fashion.
After the sad loss of my cat at the weekend I started to think how I could preserve the past for my future family.
It’s always fascinating to look though old photo’s of my family from the past and I decided to preserve this history.
The plan is to scan all my old photo’s and upload them to Flickr. So get ready for a look into the Funcoder Family History. You can even see my attempt at being a photographer.
I have always felt that being a good software developer means that you are continually learning new technology and techniques. Just doing this is not enough though, as a person you also need to learn about life.
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