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Hacktoberfest
I finally got my Hacktoberfest gear from DigitalOcean. It was a fun opportunity to contribute to open-source projects while scoring a sweet t-shirt. I fixed some annoying bugs in the weld build system that I’ve been using for my personal C++ projects. Hope you guys enjoy.
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Free Snowflakes
My sister and I made a website back in the day with fun snowflake cut-outs. Today I decided to retire the website and make all snowflakes free for everyone to enjoy.
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Vanity plates
I’ve been spending a good chunk of time commuting to and from work. Most of it being stuck in traffic on I-290. It can be a miserable experience, but listening to the radio helps. I also like looking around and spotting different license plates. Apparently custom plates are quite popular in Illinois.
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Seven Deadly Sins
I was getting my morning coffee ready, and I accidentally knocked over a wine bottle. Luckily no spillage or broken glass, but it made me glance at the wine label. The Seven Deadly Zins.
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Six months at Thomson Reuters
It’s unbelievable how fast the time goes by. It was only in January that I started my new role of Lead Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters, and here we are six months later. Lots of things have happened during those two quarters, and I feel I really grew a lot professionally. I am part of a new team charged with revitalization of TR’s data feed architecture. I live and breathe C++14 and low-latency is my middle name 😉
Thomson Reuters is a much different place than any of my previous gigs. It’s a large, mature company with thousands of well-known clients. Oftentimes I need to interface with our developers in St Louis, Beijing and Hong Kong, sometimes at ungodly times of the day. Good organization is key. Our code is also well designed. I must admit this is the first time that I was forced to write extensive unit tests. It took some time to get used to, but now I really appreciate them. It’s much quicker to find obvious behavior bugs accidentally introduced by code changes. I cannot believe I’ve gone so many years without proper unit test coverage.
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TT Platform finally out!
So it finally happened! After all these years of hard work designing, implementing, and unnecessary re-writes (thanks Rick), the TT Platform is finally a go. This is very exciting! Now anybody can sign up and try out my TT Mobile client and enjoy the cloud trading experience. Great job team!
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Railfanning Chicago
My kids love trains and I must admit I’m a fan as well. On weekends I always try to take them to the train yard. We sit in the car and wait for the trains and locomotives to go by. It’s the main Amtrak train yard, so there are plenty of Amtrak cars and engines – long haul GE Geneses, and many shunting locomotives. Every once in a while we see coaches all the way from California, or some vintage carriages.
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TT Mobile showcase
My friends at TT are really busy trying to get the mobile clients out the door and into production. TT’s twitter account is buzzing with all kinds of photos and videos. I am really happy and proud of how far my apps have come. The end result is looking beautiful and I am sure the end-users will be delighted by both the design and functionality.
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Sound Racer
In January I started my new job with Thomson Reuters. It’s in Oakbrook, so my commute is completely different than what I was used to. No more walking, no more Metra. Now it’s all about Chicago traffic.
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To my friends at TT
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