Hi.

My name is Derek.  I’m a software and web developer.  How are you?

In my decade-plus of dealing with technology professionally, I’ve run into enough aggravating, head-banging, and/or downright confounding experiences that I decided to share them with others in the hopes that you can learn from my past and prevent the same horrors from plaguing future IT professionals.

Some problems in the world of IT are simply water off a duck’s back – you hardly notice it and move on.  Others might make you take a step back and say, “Hmm… I really wish that particular scenario had resulted in a better outcome.”  (Do you always talk to yourself so formally?)  And then there’s an entirely different level of problem.  These are the ones that make you exclaim, “That couldn’t have gone worse if a cloud of shit started raining on me.”

As I illustrate various scenarios of these ilk that I’ve found myself in (sometimes, much to my chagrin, time and time again), I hope to educate, entertain, and warn those youngsters that haven’t picked a career yet to run far, far away from IT if they never want to lose their marbles.  I kid, of course.  No one plays marbles anymore.