Growing up, we learn no matter how good you are at something, there will always be someone better. I'm pretty good at programming - in fact, I'm damn good at it. I've been writing programs since I was in 5th grade and Dad bought a Tandy 1000Ex (16 color and three voice sound - a multimedia screamer in it's day). Yet, when I met Dylan Wolf I was reminded that there is always someone better.
Back when I worked at Mediapulse (small web development shop) I hired Dylan to work on the programming team. The team was small, it consisted of me and Gabriel, another great programmer. I am very proud of what we accomplished in the few years we worked together - I think it will be a long time if ever I'm a part of a team that had the level of output and efficiency we had. Dylan was a big part of that efficiency.
The first day, I gave Dylan a side project to build a system using our in house framework and Amazon Web Services. This was supposed to give him something he could play with for a week to get to know how we worked without having the pressure of a client (and a deadline). He finished it by noon, so I add a good deal more requirements to the project. He finished it by the end of the day. Dylan's reputation for speed was so great we would joke in management meetings to "give Dylan the project and he'll be done before you can tell him he's on it."
Today I was checking my site stats for the month so far, and for the first time ever Google is not my number one referring site; DylanWolf.Com is. So even in my quest to become part of the blogging elite - Dylan has beat me to it! Unlike me, Dylan doesn't carry the ego (I know, some of you would never guess I have an ego, but I do).
If you're looking to add another blog that will have great .net and programming posts mixed in with everything else, you will do well to add Dylan to your list.
Posted By Mike On Thursday, May 10, 2007
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Comments (3)
Perry
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
3:27:55 PM
If Dylan asks who CaptQuirk is, feel free to tell him. Thanks for the pointer, I've registered at his site and subscribed to his feed. I look forward to getting to know him.
Dylan
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
4:33:42 PM
Holy crap. This is an awesome post. Thanks.
Hmm... seems like the Amazon Web Services thing was a week or two later after I'd played around with Python/Albatross a bit. Plus I think it took longer than half a day. But, you know, I like the legendary story better. :P
I'm more and more convinced the speed at which I work can be a bad thing. I tend to be a "sprinter" rather than a "marathon runner" when it comes to working on stuff--I'll start up at 100% effort, which is good until things get stressful or start piling up, when you need the slack to avoid burnout and all its associated issues.
And the fact is I don't get all that much traffic under normal circumstances. I *do* get a lot of traffic on those GridView/ObjectDataSource sorting articles from search engines, which are linked to your articles. So there's a bit of an illusion as to how many "regular" readers I may have if you go by your referrers.
Mike
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
5:07:14 PM
Perhaps time makes the memories better. Doesn't feel like it though =)
I've noticed a good deal of traffic goes to my .Net posts as well - and it's pretty obvious why. When you google the problem and get no where, then the first posts up that address the problem are going to get traffic.
My next .Net post I'm going to try something different. Instead of bloggnig in a teaching fashion - where I do one concept only - I'm going to do a post on a solution that more typical of all the many hurdles you cross to get one feature to work. this one might come with a screencast.
