Q: Who’s a new hero?
A: Frank
From dictionary.com:
A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life: soldiers and nurses who were heroes in an unpopular war.
My definition:
A person who utilizes personal strength, intelligence, creativity and courage to perform a feat(s) which produces greatness and inspires greatness in others.
The programmer who sits in the old style cube next to me at the LA Weekly is a young man named Francisco, a.k.a Frank. Until my arrival at the LA Weekly, Frank was the only full time programmer that the paper had. Using nothing but ASP 3.0, Outlook and some SQL Server and MySQL databases Frank created programs that made the paper work better and smarter.
When I first arrived at the Weekly, I felt sort of bad that Frank was working in JavaScript, DHTML and ASP, a loose typed, scripting language that I thought to be pretty limited. I was given the freedom to work in ASP.NET. I thought that .NET and Visual Studio .NET would bring the Weekly over the top into more productive programming practices.
That was a year ago. The project that I am working on is shipping....sort of. The many, many projects that Frank is working on are really, really shipping and providing valuable information and service to our most excellent entrerprise.
To my observation Frank has not tried to impress anyone, change anyone, or impose an agenda. All he does is create elegant solutions to big problems using simple tools.
I have a lot to learn from Frank. He is my new hero.
From dictionary.com:
A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life: soldiers and nurses who were heroes in an unpopular war.
My definition:
A person who utilizes personal strength, intelligence, creativity and courage to perform a feat(s) which produces greatness and inspires greatness in others.
The programmer who sits in the old style cube next to me at the LA Weekly is a young man named Francisco, a.k.a Frank. Until my arrival at the LA Weekly, Frank was the only full time programmer that the paper had. Using nothing but ASP 3.0, Outlook and some SQL Server and MySQL databases Frank created programs that made the paper work better and smarter.
When I first arrived at the Weekly, I felt sort of bad that Frank was working in JavaScript, DHTML and ASP, a loose typed, scripting language that I thought to be pretty limited. I was given the freedom to work in ASP.NET. I thought that .NET and Visual Studio .NET would bring the Weekly over the top into more productive programming practices.
That was a year ago. The project that I am working on is shipping....sort of. The many, many projects that Frank is working on are really, really shipping and providing valuable information and service to our most excellent entrerprise.
To my observation Frank has not tried to impress anyone, change anyone, or impose an agenda. All he does is create elegant solutions to big problems using simple tools.
I have a lot to learn from Frank. He is my new hero.
posted by Bob Reselman at 1:28 PM
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