Mr. Leatherwood Was Right

When I was in college, there was an I.T. instructor named Mr. Leatherwood. I remember several tidbits of information that he gave us.

A Programmer, On Average, Only Writes About 10-12 Good Lines of Code a Day

I’ve found that to be true. Meetings, debugging, talking with users, fixing bugs, setting up source control, writing documentation, etc., all take up time during the day. Some days you'll write 100s of lines. Others you'll write none.

The I.T. Department Is The One That Knows What Is Going On In The Organization

Because they write the programs for all the different areas, they are the ones who know what each part of the organization is doing.

You Can Do More Than You Think You Can

This was a big one for me.  It's not something that he directly said. He would gave us a programming assignment one day with a due date of a few weeks. Then, before that was due, he would give us another assignment. And then another. I thought "There's no way I can get all of this done." But I did. I discovered that I could do more than I thought.

Trying Out Markdown Monster

I started looking at desktop based software for editing blog posts again. I had looked at Open Live Writer (on Windows) and Mars Edit (on Mac). But neither of them felt quite right.

I've been reading Rick Strahl's blog for several years, and remembered that he had written a program -- Markdown Monster --for editing markdown that could be used for creating blog posts.

This is a test post I'm creating with Markdown Monster. Here is some sample code:

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        ' The following is a sample
        For i = 1 To 100
            Console.WriteLine(i.ToString())
        Next
    End Sub
End Class

And here's some C# code:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // The following is a sample
    for (int i = 1; i <=100; i++)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(i.ToString());
    }
}

Markdown Monster has an evaluation license, so I'm going to create some posts with it and see how I like it.