Monthly Archives: July 2006

Tea, Scones and Castles After finishing the DevelopMentor Guerilla course in London, I hopped on a
plane up to Manchester to visit the parents of my brother Tom’s wife (Sue), Derek and Verena
Thomas. What a contrast between the capitol city and the English countryside! Although Sue’s
parents live in Preston, they picked me up in Manchester and we proceeded to Grasmere, the place
where William Wordsworth did most of his writing. I don’t know about the poetry, but the ice
cream there is to die for. We also took a walk around Lake Windermere (to work off the ice cream), and
I had my very first Continue reading →

Chasing a Dream (Part 2) I’ve just finished my very first DevelopMentor Guerilla course – what a
blast! I’m now one step closer to realizing my goal of becoming a DM instructor. There are still
more steps to complete, but I think I’m well on my way. The last step, of course, will be to do the
actual course preparation, but I’m in the process and have completed technical notes and
demos for 4 out of 14 lessons. It should take me just a couple of months more to finish. I have to say I
was pretty much blown away by the Guerilla course. They call it Continue reading →

Chasing a Dream (Part 1) I suppose it’s always been kind of a dream of mine to
teach software developers (at least since I started writing software back in 1994),
spending the rest of my time delving into the technology and tinkering with some of its
more esoteric aspects. After all, software development is pretty much a glorified
hobby, at least to me. It just so happens I also get paid to do it, but it’s a heck of
a lot of fun. The problem is, working in the real world tends to make you somewhat
lopsided in your grasp of the overall technical landscape. Inevitably, the tasks of Continue reading →

Tracing Roots, Chasing a Dream I’m now sitting in the Prague Airport waiting to
catch a flight to London to sit through DevelopMentor’s week-long course,
Guerilla Essential .Net 2.0. I haven’t got much time before the plane boards, but
I thought I would take the opportunity at least to start this blog, seeing it’s been a
couple weeks since my last post and a lot has happened since then. First of all, we just
returned from a week-long visit to Zuzana’s family in the middle of Slovakia. Her
parents live in what is probably the third largest city in Slovakia (next to Bratislava and
KoÅ¡ice), Continue reading →