Comments for Chris Missal

Comment on Number 10,000! by Chris Missal

Chris Missal — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:40:12 +0000

You’re right Matt (if my calculation was correct, oops). It should have been 417 days since my birthday is 10/21/1982. My bad…

Comment on Number 10,000! by Matt Y

Matt Y — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:30:03 +0000

Sunday, October 10, 1982

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=today+-+10000+days+-+428+days

Comment on Why is your Site Not Getting Faster? by Matt Youngblut

Matt Youngblut — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:21:18 +0000

Well, if that whole Net Neutrality thing sticks, I plan on blaming ISPs for throttling and then never do anything to speed up a site ever again!

Comment on One Reason I’ve Improved as a Developer by Chris Missal

Chris Missal — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:08:41 +0000

Kind of extreme Greg, but to each, his own. :)

Comment on One Reason I’ve Improved as a Developer by Greg

Greg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:21:11 +0000

Move into a condo or apartment and avoid yard work.

Don’t get married. Skip women (or visa-versa) all together.

Don’t have children, especially if you aren’t married.

Avoid any social life.

Avoid heavy drinking or anything that could make you incapable of studying Microsof’t's next data access pattern.

Hire someone to clean your condo or apartment.

Comment on One Reason I’ve Improved as a Developer by Jeremy Wiebe

Jeremy Wiebe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:01 +0000

I find that reading blogs and technical materials online can suck up alot of time. Those are good, but I think you also need to read and write code alot more in order to “internalize” what you read and learn about.

Comment on One Reason I’ve Improved as a Developer by James Gregory

James Gregory — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:37:51 +0000

I’ve had a similar experience too. Over the past couple of years (coincidently also the time my OSS work has boomed) I’ve stopped watching TV completely, except for a dedicated “TV night” where I spend a few hours catching up with my favourite programs. This effectively means two things, I don’t miss out on the TV shows I enjoy, and that I can plan around it. I’m now down one night instead of several smaller time-chunks throughout the week, which while the actual time is probably similar, not losing focus every few hours is great.

Comment on Iowa Code Camp IV – A Love Story by Chris Missal

Chris Missal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:05:13 +0000

Thanks for the feedback David!

Comment on Iowa Code Camp IV – A Love Story by David Mitchell

David Mitchell — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:45:30 +0000

Chris,

Really not enough room on the comment form.

Great session. Saw a lot of jQuery that I hadn’t seen before.

You threw out a disclaimer that if people didn’t understand the document ready example that they probably weren’t going to get much out of the session. I bet that wasn’t true as you did a good job of explaining what was going on. I think if you took 3 minutes to describe the initial code that would have been great for any newbies.

The first few minutes were a little slow. You were talking to selectors, but not showing any examples. Once you got to the validation section, your passion for the framework really came through. I note that that was when you really started showing jQuery running and then changing things on the fly. From there we were off to the races.

A great talk and totally worth sitting on the floor in the overflow space.

Comment on Adding a New Team Member by Chris Missal

Chris Missal — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:58:08 +0000

I had this all typed up as of the night before, I promise, it just didn’t publish. :)