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I was having a conversation with a couple of friends the other day, when the topic of Software Engineering came up. I have been working in the software industry for over two years. I do not consider this to be a large amount of time. Nevertheless, I have learned a significant amount of software engineering. Let me back up. In college, most computer science students take a class on how to design and build software, titled Software Engineering. In this class they give you a textbook and teach you the different “models” of software engineering. They present this Utopian view of the software engineering process that I have never seen implemented in the real world. Most of what I see is similar to this graphic I found: ...

The best feeling as a coach is when one of your students has a great day. Yesterday evening was one of those days, and it means enough for me to be slightly late to work in order to write about it. There are three major components in cheerleading for a guy, throwing people around, throwing ourselves around, and yelling. Yesterday was a very strong day for our guys, to be called Big and Little. ...

When I went to UCA camp last weekend there were two new dances being pushed around: aka, the Soulja Boy. And: Check them out. They are fun.

Recently a friend and I had a conversation about the quality of programmers in the workplace. Without delving too deeply into the specifics (so as not to get anyone in trouble), we discussed various metrics for measuring programmers and how they perform. That conversation, along with a recent talk I heard about quality of code, leads to the conclusion that as systems get more and more complex in our society, quality of code, effected by the quality of programmers, will become a serious matter. ...

Its official, I’m now a volenteer assistant coach for the St. John’s Cheerleading program. I’m very excited to be working with such a wonderful program and team. I have been helping out a few practices prior to camp and I will be going to visit them (and my college program, Villanova) at UCA camp tomorrow.