Welcome to Lost in the Sauce.
I’m here to make fun of myself, answer questions, and help teach useful skills about the PEGA Content Management System.
Twenty years in the military service taught me that you’re never too far from being three sheets to the wind and every command would having you learning new technologies and programs.
Leaving the service I decided that I wanted to be a Web Designer! Not sure what I was drinking, I mean thinking. After earning my B.S. in Visual Arts it became clear that many companies wanted programmers that can design. Not designers that also programmed. (Or maybe they didn’t like my designs… nah!)
Okay, no problem, I can make that sauce for you.
- Start with PHP
- Add in HTTP, HTML, CSS, and a pinch of JavaScript
- Stir and bring to a simmer
- Add in a pinch more browser side scripting to add some zing
How’s the sauce boss? Good? You say a little bitter? That’s okay, we’ll just add some Java to cover that sour taste.
You want us to to do what? Buy a sauce at the store and call it ours? Which one? You don’t care? It should taste like spaghetti sauce and we need to spice it up to be ‘our’ pizza sauce. Doesn’t homemade sauce taste better? Getting a sauce off the shelf shortens our time to production and keep us competitive.
Not just that, the sauce company is giving us equipment that makes it?!?! We have to learn how to operate the sauce maker? How does this machine even work? It’s just a box with buttons on it. Don’t worry, you got this. The base of the sauce is made out of Java. Depending on which side of the jar you are looking at it could taste different.
They say it takes 18 months to become proficient with the machine. Our first release will be in nine months so get to stirring the pot.
“Ben…, I know you… You believe homemade sauce is the best. This machine… this thing… has a recipe for every sauce we may or may never need!”
Sorry, what was that boss? I was lost in the sauce.
Boiling down my experiences these last five years.
- Tools of the trade always change, make sure to learn how the ones you use work
- Recipes are guidelines, we can refine them to make a butter rum sauce
- A good homemade sauce may use a store bought blender to bring out that zing
