I had always wondered why I passed my interview for my first job. Barely a month after graduation, I went to a company headquarters for a coding interview. I was given a desktop computer with a JBuilder installed, and asked to code something. Fresh out of college and without Google then, it was difficult to […]
Back to Traveling @ Magnolia Silos
The pandemic halted all things travel-related. When we got our vaccinations, we slowly crawled our ways back to travel normalcy and we thought that an overnight stay at Waco would be a good starting point. We picked the Magnolia Silos as our baby step. It’s just hours away from our home base. We could save […]
The Kitchen
We did about 3 iterations of revamping our kitchen. First iteration was all about replacing the appliances with steel ones and adding a microwave oven at the top of the stove. Eventually we got tired of the brown tiles. How do we update the look without demoing the whole thing. And then there’s the Stick […]
The case of the missing packages
On my first job, at day 1, I was given a desktop computer that is not what I used during the the job interview, I might have been given a book as well as a reference. Things I had to do manually when I sat on my chair: I remember then that we had to […]
How manual can we go?
Once upon a time, I worked as a Business Systems Analyst. Even during this time, I always considered myself a Coder / Programmer first and foremost. Since most of my career was spent as a consultant/contractor, I learned to be an IT chameleon of sorts (Or maybe a unicorn). As a consultant, you don’t really […]
A Blog about Software Engineering
Hello World! Of all the topics I tried on blogging – this is probably the one closest to home. Software Engineering is me, this is what I do! 17 years in the industry and I still love doing it, it excites me! From Gambling to Banking, and regardless of what role I was in within […]