Yesterday I got to participate in a very encouraging experience. I got the opportunity to collaborate on a project I've been working on with another talented developer. Being able to collaborate on this particular project allowed me to work with sql, which has been more in my wheelhouse lately and the other developer got to work with .net technologies, ......

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After almost four and half years, I finally escaped from the world of telemarketing. I'm now at a place that writes really good code, values testing, does routine code reviews, collaborates with each other so continuously and effectively somebody should make a documentary about it! Today alone, I had two really smart and well respected developers go ......

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Name - Zac Harlan How long have you been coming to CRineta? - off and on for a couple years then got serious about two years ago. Where do you work? - J&P Cycles What do you do there? - Lead Programmer Analyst How old were you when you started programming? - I was a "late bloomer" because i didn't "experience" my first program until i was a freshman ......

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I enrolled in the EBMA program at the University of Iowa last fall so i've been extremly busy.  I've decided to take a year off from that program so i can focus on getting my work place up to snuff and my skillset up to snuff.  Just wanted to drop a quick note to let you all know i'll be blogging again.

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Before I begin any large undertaking I like to do a little research first. I was reading a lot ofJeff Atwood at the time of the bomb going off so the book Code Complete seemed like a logical place to start. This book was a great read and served as a way to clean up my coding practices. For example, I’d routinely write code like this for a lot of my ......

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When my “desire bomb” to become a better programmer finally started ticking I was also reading the book Q.B.Q. The basic premise of the book is changing how you look at situations and how to ask the right questions to solve the problem. My situation was that I wanted to become a “cracker jack” developer but had a load of excuses why I couldn’t learn ......

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July 5th... This feels like a good day to start my blog with Geekswithblogs.net! My name is Zac Harlan and I am a software developer with a drive to turn my occupation into my craft. I started off with .net being a windows forms, control junkie... a drag and drop man... a "see how fast I can make a site that works" man. No more. I've committed myself ......

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