User:Karey Powell

Software Engineer from Jamaica, WI. Very passionate about technology, the way it is evolving and what it has to offer. I'm a Rubyist, CakePHP enthusiast and particularly like to work with Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Android; pretty much all technologies. I mainly work with opensource tools, because of the flexibility and power they have to offer. Someday I hope to create that software which will impact many lives in a good way, but until then I'm just learning as much as I can and contributing to the Opensource community whatever I'm able to by answering questions on forums, participating in IRC chats with developers across the board, subscribing to mailing lists to see how best I can understand and contribute back to some of the tools I use for development and also to get a sense of how other developers like myself are using them to create awesome things.

I take pride in my work, as I like to see well built software. Most of friends call me a workaholic, but I say to them that it is pure passion for the field. Recently, I read in a post on Quora.com that "passion for something is not achieved until we have fail at it", in a sense I can agree with that statement, but I think that if you truly do something that you cannot wait to see everyday or it is always on your mind, something that you really love, then it is passion. There is also this quote from a passed Computer Science lecturer of Carnegie Mellon University that goes, "Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. If things aren’t going well it probably means you are learning a lot and things will go better later. --- Randy Pausch". I particularly like this quote, because it somehow applies to me in the sense of my work. However, with all this said, I do spend a lot of time nowadays on the things that matter most to me (family, friends, programming), because at the end of the day, if we software engineers or anyone in particular who specializes in a field neglect these things, we not only fail as a human, but we also fail at life in general.