fortes fortuna adiuvat.Tumblr (3.0; @ebzlo)http://ebzlo.com/<p><span>A professional </span>developer<span> carries certain expectations:</span></p> <ul><li>Meeting deadlines.</li> <li>Accurately estimating timelines.</li> </ul><p>When I first began programming, none of these things were a concern for me. It was easy for me to bunker down in my room with cans of soda, pizza, and my keyboard filled with traces of the aforementioned items.</p> <p>I could try new things, make mistakes, and nobody was going to have a problem with that and nobody was going to care if it ended up taking much longer. This sort of mentality was extremely conducive to growing.</p> <p>At some point during my professional career, I became blinded by the goals of my employer and had forgotten to set my own. Hacking together a solution quickly was commonplace and sometimes warranted by my management overlords, because while it wasn’t the best solution, it was <em>good enough</em>. I became complacent and lost sight in the importance of keeping up with new technologies.</p> <p>It’s now been about six months since I left that position. In that time, I’ve fallen in love with Ruby (now imagine going from PHP4 to Ruby), learned Rails, discovered the magic of Heroku, dabbled with Amazon’s services, moved over completely to Git, and among other things.</p> <p>I’ve been a little behind, but it feels good to finally be caught up again.</p>http://ebzlo.com/post/10158312144http://ebzlo.com/post/10158312144Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:23:00 -0400githerokuphprailsruby