A Person, Artist, Software Engineer, Geologist.

I'm now on Twitter!  It's been awhile and I'm exploring how best to network with others interesting in Buddhist Software Development (or just Software Development). I'm also revamping my www.BlueFootedBoobie.com web site that contains my MySines iPad and iPhone/iTouch applications.  The changes will also include information on how to setup and work with developers from a management point of view. My handle is #ToddBlackley. My tweets maybe questions that I've axed myself many times that get me thinking, comments of the day or just a quick observation.  I hope you find them helpful. See ya in Twitter-sphere ...

We don't always stop dancing when the music stops and our song is over.  We learn to love our ruts, our comfort zones and fail to notice that the music has stopped and it's time to change. But it's change that we should always be planning for.  The world is not static and neither are companies, projects or even ourselves, so why are we so surprised when the music stops? We see this all the time with friends changing jobs, moving away, marriages breaking and always try to come up with what went wrong, what reason is there for this occurring. That's the wrong question.  The real question is why does it not occur more often?  When should we reject change and when should we adopt it?  Too much change and we spin our wheels with undirected motion, too little and the world moves on without us. Then the music stops.  Maybe you did not even notice it and you are still dancing.  Maybe when you where dancing you should have learning some other songs or o...

If you have been in the software development field for any length of time you've had to wear many different types of hats.  There the DB, API creation, Web design, Web code/JS, remoting / streaming, UI, Requirements, Architect, Help system, Error handling, Customer service and a zillion other types of hats that are required for a typical project in our field. I enjoy all of these different roles that I've needed to perform, however it does not make me an expert in them all.  I'm good in most of them, expert even in a number of them, but I know where my strength and weakness lay.  I must still learn from others. In my youth I wanted to be an expert in everything.  Learn something new then I would quickly become an expert.  Well, not so fast, wanting and being are not the same and I needed to learn that. I first needed to become an expert at myself and that took time.  I needed to understand what I knew, what I did not know and when it's helpful for m...