I’ve only gotten three in so far, but I feel as though I’m in a difficult position. I’m a year out of school, and most of the folks I’d like to recommend are senior to me, are or folks who have given guidance or perspective without directly working with me on a project, and it’s that “we worked together” sort of recommendation that the networking sites are built to assume, and probably with good reason. I’ve still a couple of guys who I worked with a while back who deserve being recommended, I just need to come up with novel and work-appropriate ways to say, “he’s really good at getting beer and wings,” which, as we all know, is as valuable a workplace skill as any.

The other item I want to note at the moment is that I haven’t remotely finished filling in the blogroll links yet. There are a ton of great developer/bloggers I’ve come in contact with or come across, and the folks currently linked to represent the links easiest at hand when I was working out the design. I’ll be continually adding links, if nothing else than to at least show my support for writers I’ve found to be good or helpful.

(And also to help me remember to go through them all regularly. Which might elicit the response, “Use the RSS Reader, Matt!”, but as someone who finds appeal in visual esthetics and envies the ability to create a good design, I’ve always been put off by using a reader other than as an actual news aggregater. And even then, I prefer to visit the source site to read an interesting article. The graphic designer for Ars Technica, for example, didn’t put multiple months into a redesign for me to just strip all the pretty out with a reader. YMMV, of course.)

Here’s hoping this is the beginning of many decent digressions into life as an upright code monkey.

• police on my back - the clash
• muscle’n flow - menomena
• the ice of boston - the dismemberment plan
• start all over again - locksley
• you are invited - the dismemberment plan (again)

No real reason for putting this up but for more testing, in particular testing of formatting. Edit: Formatting which, I note, doesn’t seem to exist. Oh, to investigate or to defer? Edit2: Too simple a fix to ignore.

def HavingFun? ()
  @lang == :ruby
end

…and here’s a C# one:

public bool IsHavingFun
{
    get { return _isHavingFun; }
    private set { _isHavingFun = value; }
}

… both styled by the WP-CodeBox plugin.