Bruce Alderman

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bio	website	brucealderman.info
	location	Kansas
	age	44
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I'm the Lead Programmer for Johnson County Library, and a sometime writer for SitePoint.

	1,172 reputation	bio	website	brucealderman.info	visits	member for	2 years, 8 months
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Jun 1	awarded	Nice Answer
Mar 10	awarded	Populist
Oct 21	answered	Where can I get programming books?
Oct 5	comment	Is it unusual for a small company (15 developers) not to use managed source/version control? +1 for "less than or equal to one"
Sep 29	awarded	Yearling
Sep 1	answered	Should I list a website I created as experience on my resume?
Jul 28	comment	How to create Job Security? +1 for focusing on career security rather than job security
May 22	awarded	Nice Answer
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Feb 15	comment	How to explain my 5 burnt-out years off to a new employer? @jmort253 Any examples of recent work -- a web application, an open source project -- would be a good indicator of current skills and motivation.
Feb 15	comment	How to explain my 5 burnt-out years off to a new employer? @user17332 Past burnout is not an issue to me, partly because I've gone through it myself. But I've moved beyond it and have been programming full time for the past four years.
Feb 15	answered	How to explain my 5 burnt-out years off to a new employer?
Feb 9	answered	Writing a job requirement for a web application developer
Feb 4	revised	How do you answer the question, “where do you see yourself in 5 years?” added 30 characters in body
Feb 4	answered	How do you answer the question, “where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
Feb 4	comment	What are good social coding sites? I think hg is better, too, but that's not relevant to answering the question. The higher we keep the signal/noise ratio, the more useful the site is.
Feb 3	comment	If we can do functional programming with Python, do we need a specific functional programming language? If Scheme has built-in procedures, why do we need a specific procedural programming language? If we can define objects in Haskell, why do we need a specific object-oriented language?