First Kludge

So. This is it! My first blog post. I've been wrestling with the idea of starting to blog, but I could never figure out what exactly I would be talking about. It's a good thing Hoakie came a long and kicked me in to action. Little did he know that I know just enough about a few things to be dangerous.

Ok, here's everything you don't want to know about me:
I am greengreengreen when it comes right down to it--but technically I'm still a software developer. I've spent the past 3 years writing flash memory test code in C++ for a little known US based memory maker. Actually, the only US based memory maker. The test code ran on a DOS based tester, so my experience writing applications is minimal at best. For the past six months, I've been attempting to learn Visual Basic, .NET, and TDD. I've got one kludged app under my belt, and cringe whenever I think about it. Oh, and if I had a nickel for every time I cringed while reading Code Complete (thinking of my old C++ test code), I'd have a few dollars at least.

I hope that my role on Kludgeless is one of the naive young grasshopper. I'm going to ask a lot of dumb questions that everyone who knows anything about programming already knows. Hoakie and I will hopefully have some blog discussions that illuminate our choices for TDD methodologies, and illustrate why we've made them. In this way, I hope to gradually become a much better programmer, and maybe help someone else along the way.

So, there it is. Boring, I know. Hopefully we'll get some more interesting posts up soon, and maybe--just maybe--get some traffic other than our own...