Hi everyone! Glad to be in this community where we're bound together in the similarity that our lives, whether it's our jobs or passion, evolves around technology!
Le me introduce myself. My name is Eric O. Jonathan. I am from Indonesia and went to the university in Hawaii, USA at Hawaii Pacific University. My relevant degree to the IT field is my master in Information Systems. Meanwhile, I'm already been back to Indonesia for about 14 years now and been working in various industries and in various IT roles from being a computer support specialist, assistant manager, IT Coordinator, Project Consultant, Lead Software Developer, DevOps leader, and now a Full Stack Developer.
I have been interested in how technologies, specifically software, work since I was a kid and an outsider looking inwards to this type of profession in amazement as how software brought to life the technologies that we use everyday! To fast forward to today where I am in the inside looking at the mess that I'm in dealing with developing software, from patching someone else's work (my current day job) to creating a mess of my own (side projects).
One thing I learnt in the software development practice, is that there's no perfect code! A perfect code now is obsolete in a few years time at most (unless your code is COBOL, then yours will last for ETERNITY). Meanwhile, for mere mortal like me, I just am contented with the ones I'm dealing with. However, that doesn't mean we should write spaghetti code. My motto is to follow the best practices of the day, and get the job done first. For the rest, I guess I just need to debug them as they come.
I'm looking forward to write more blogs and maybe share a story or two. So please check them out when you have a chance! Thanks.