Archive for April, 2006

Head First Design Patterns

Friday, April 21st, 2006

What a great book! I had read some of the GOF Design Patterns book but feel like I understood only some of the patters well enough to use them. Sure, everybody can create a singleton class, but when should you use a decorator and what’s do you give up in the process? From [...]

Sometimes I’m so right it’s scary

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

On February 2, I said, referring to Apple’s stock:my guess is that it bottoms out at $58 and then goes back to the mid 70s by next earnings release. The next earning release is on April 19th. It bottomed out at 58.25 on March 28th. Today, it’s around 71.

Writing a resumé

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

I’ve let my resume stagnate since I got my last job and started SlipperySoft so I thought it would be a good exercise to update my resume with all my new experience. A real problem with writing a resume is figuring out which program to use to write it. Once upon a time, [...]