Several years ago when I worked as a manager in a retail establishment, I learned a true lesson from a friend and mentor. We were hiring employees that would be facing the customers. All of our interview questions centered around their knowledge of the retail industry. After one particular interview, my friend and I discussed [...]

I love looking at people that can throw away their traditional preconceptions and processes for doing even the most ordinary and standard of tasks and take a new look.  These new perspectives often don’t yield life-altering changes in time and space, but they do evolve ideas into catalysts that do change how we act and [...]

John Attends software testing lectures provided by Michael Bolton. Topics included “Oracles, Three sources for project information, Test Coverage, and Confirmation vs. Exploration.

John Andersen recently completed his first trip to India. John made the trip to attend the Novell Systems & Resource Management quality summit. He joined the rest of the management team from both the United States and India in a week long retrospective event. A highlight of the trip was the opportunity to get to [...]

I was looking around and ran across the python builtin function property(). In other programming languages we are used to making things public/private and using getters/setters. In python this is not the usual way of doing things, you just set an attribute directly. We also try to use underscores to denote that an attribute should [...]

I recently purchased a Garmin Nuvi 650 and have since used it to help me with my Garage Sale needs. Now, when I want to go garage sale’ing I’ll look up all of the addresses in the paper and copy and paste them into a text file list this: 2868 West 230 North, Provo 401 [...]