Jarrod Roberson

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Director of Technology

A software developer since the mid-80's I ran a successful consulting business for 15 years. I have worked for everything startups and international companies that did billions of dollars a quarter in profit.

As a technology consultant I made a career out of finding the next job, learning more about my clients business than they knew and giving them direction to future successes. I have comprehensive experience with both software and hardware development companies.

I have extensive experience as a hiring manager as well, earned from years of experience building, teaching and managing creative Agile Technical teams.

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Apr 23	comment	What are the different types of IDEs? there is only one ide you need to know; emacs!
Apr 6	comment	Why is Lisp useful? Lisp exists to show how wrong every other language designer has been.
Mar 9	comment	better way to define an exception thrown by a method in Java? you are mis-using exceptions, what you are describing is not exceptional, it is expected behavior apparently from your description. this can be checked before had easily and handled without having to incur the overhead of raising an exception.
Mar 9	comment	What non-theoretical, practical programming language has no reserved keywords? simple pattern matching does away with `if/then/else` as well as `switch` constructs as well as traditional `for/each` loops.
Mar 9	comment	What non-theoretical, practical programming language has no reserved keywords? @MichaelT that isn't a problem if the language doesn't have a C-style `if/then/else` construct! :-)
Mar 9	comment	What non-theoretical, practical programming language has no reserved keywords? if every noun, verb, adverb and adjective in a novel was labeled as such it would make it HARDER to read not easier!
Mar 9	comment	Choosing DOCTYPE for an online eBook read up on "responsive design" and have the site switch CSS to respond to the size and type of client.
Mar 9	comment	What non-theoretical, practical programming language has no reserved keywords? Erlang is very expressive and not complex syntactically. I think all functional languages end up being more expressive with less reserved keywords.
Mar 8	comment	What non-theoretical, practical programming language has no reserved keywords? I think the key word in your answer is complex, a sufficiently designed language should be simple, not complex.
Mar 8	comment	Why does Java require a servlet container for simple RPC service? possible duplicate of Which Java framework meets these requirements?
Jan 23	comment	How can I explain the difference between NULL and zero? `NULL` is the explict LACK of data, it isn't a placeholder, it is a single solitary representation of no data.
Dec 30	comment	Who was the first software engineer? more lack of reading comprehension skills ... you are posting points that prove my point. Concurrent software is non-deterministic, distributed computing even more so; if you dont' understand that, you are part of the problem.
Dec 9	comment	Can I (reasonably) refuse to sign an NDA for pro bono work? you can reasonably refuse anything, is it reasonable for you to expect them to accept your refusal, that is another issue. Also this isn't programmer specific in any way.
Nov 26	comment	How do people deal with Android fragmentation? they develop for iOS and forget about Android, given the massive Apple AppStore sales ratios to Android app sales, this is actually a reasonable alternative.
Nov 11	comment	What would be a non-contrived reason to have an object with Private Copy Constructor as well as Assignment Operator? +1 - this is a complete answer to the question, thanks.
Oct 7	comment	Why is C++ often the first language taught in college? teaching C++ as a first language is like teaching someone how to base jump with a bed sheet!
Sep 26	comment	How can I improve these online java programming puzzles I wrote for my (middle/high school) students? puzzles are a terrible way to teach practical skills
Sep 19	comment	What naming anti-patterns exist? Read the linked article, and understand what tautology means. Also violates DRY Principals. Do you suffix every concrete class with `Class` or prefix it with `C`? No, doesn't make sense, waste of effort, always useless.
Sep 13	comment	Programming languages with a Lisp-like syntax extension mechanism your question is contradictory, first you ask for a list, then you ask for conceptual information, which is it???
Sep 12	comment	What makes Erlang suitable for cloud applications? specifically the term "cloud" is nebulous and doesn't mean anything specific, it is marketing speak, you still haven't defined what actually qualifies something as a cloud application. Personally I know what I know what I think it means, I am sure it isn't what you think it means, given the question.