Don’t Call Me at Work

Today I was sitting in the lab doing some computer stuff. The phone rings. The sound gets filtered out–the phone has rung hundreds of times and was never for me....

Girl Develop It

Last night I volunteered at the Philadelphia chapter of Girl Develop It. GDI offers low-cost programming classes for women. One of my former co-workers who’s involved with GDI shared that...

There is No Right Way to Develop Software

There is no “right” way to develop software. I repeat: THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY TODEVELOP SOFTWARE. Some people in our industry like to cargo cult and don’t want to believe this. They believe that the...

Sick Day

Woke up before dawn this morning with heartburn, a headache, and a lot of congestion. I guess I have a cold. I didn’t really want to call (read: email) out...

Converting a QFrame to a QWidget

I had spent the better part of yesterday building, integrating, and testing a Qt form that was a single panel on a larger display. This morning I was tasked to...