I guess it took a good friend from back way back when… WAYYY back when I was a freshman in college to push me into “code mode”. [Insert Age Joke Here, for all you freshmen that are reading this...] Derek Remund, a totally cool and amazing guy that God placed into my life, just as I was beginning to realize what computers were all about.
He’s taking this sweet class called Programming Studio, a class I would have dearly enjoyed. You see, my education at UIUC comprised of quite a bit of theory, and very little hands-on-ness. I mean, there are benefits for being taught hard-core theory, but there’s nothing like actually putting code to compiler (in my case, code to browser incompatibility insanity).
I had the pleasure of talking with him on the intricacies of web mashups. What little knowledge I had of JSON and REST and other subjects to do with cross-site scripting methodologies, I tried to pass on to him.
Of course, this was no one way street in terms of information exchange. I keep looking at Derek, and am amazed at how deeply he understands the code. He is the closest thing I have to a hacker: I’m so thankful to have a friend that can give me this kind of point of view on the subject.
We jokingly talked about how a couple years from now, we’d be talking about this past Thursday night, when wearing our maroon hoodies we came up with the idea for the next big thing. We didn’t, but I’m still searching.
Whatever we talked about, whatever we joked about… it seemed like it was towards something. I definitely need to find many more friends like this… not in separate geographic locations (like Texas and Ohio), but all in the same place. Well… at least, leverage technology (uh oh… Josh is using the word “leverage”) so that we could all sit down and talk about these issues. Maybe I’m wanting too much… can’t have all my friends work together.
Manager JK is slowly being cultivated, spouting off buzzwords and management techniques like no other. Uh oh… time to go learn some more Ruby to stave it off.
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