Thrivent Financial job update: Three weeks ago, initial 15-20 min phone “get to know you” interview with director in Appleton, WI. Last week, three person video conference interview with mgr (WI), team lead (MPLS) and a non-team tech (WI). Not sure if mgr is the mgr of the team I would be on, or mgr […]
Software Dev.
Tesla, Auto-Pilot, and software development
Reading a pretty cool and short (text)book (yawn), called “A gentle introduction to the art of object-oriented programming in Java. (yes, a truly exciting two volume set) Uses as an example, the programming of a robot. Reading this book, and also reading the recent news posted by my former colleague Charles Rader, about the first […]
Supporting really old applications
Article on supporting really old computer programs (opens in a new window) Really interesting story about supporting a 60 yr old “computer application”…and not being able to find people that know the older programming languages [they mention Fortran, Assembly, even ALGOL.] I know that some of the code (programs) I wrote in the early to […]
U/ST Final grade for Object Oriented Software Analysis (“UML” class)
i’m just one lucky SOB [son of bob?]. Been logging into U/St. Thomas almost on a daily basis. Grade was posted today for the summer class: “A-“, giving an overall GPA of 3.52. Last course starts after Labor day.
U/Saint Thomas – Summer class final exam
So, the final exam tonight (for my “Object oriented software analysis & design” class) was closed book, but we could bring a double sided cheat sheet to use. I got there, and the whole row behind me (4-5 people) were poring over copies of someone’s cheat sheet – font size 6, double column – I […]
