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Proud of the award; not proud of the organization
Almost 20 years ago, I became an Eagle Scout. This took a lot of work and taught me leadership and many skills that help me all the time. I am extremely proud of my accomplishment and it is pretty apparent in my office where I have my Eagle Scout award hanging on the wall.
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Working for "the man", 2 years later
Three years ago this May, I quit my job and started being an independent software developer doing contract work. I decided that I was tired of my IT job and wanted to go back to writing code all the time (which was a change from a year and a half before that where I was tired of writing code). Working for my last company made me realize that I no longer wanted to work for anyone else and I wasn't going to work for a large company again (I worked for Qualcomm at the beginning of my career. I wanted to be in charge of my work and control my own destiny; I believed that I could only accomplish this being self employed.
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Bluetooth Knowledge Followup - Apple Radar Filed
In my last article, I wrote about an issue I had with my Bluetooth heart rate monitor and my Bluetooth headset. After analyzing the issue and trying to reproduce the issue, I was unable to do so in my office and then on my next run, everything working perfectly. However, on my run this morning, the problems came back. When I got home, I turned off RunKeeper and ran my test app. My test app either disconnected or I heard an audio dropout every 6 seconds. The big difference between my initial tests and this test was that my heart rate was up and the contacts on the heart rate monitor were conducting quite well. This would indicate that the issue is not a RunKeeper issue, but either an iOS issue or an iPhone 5 issue.
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Using my Bluetooth knowledge
In November, I saw that TI announced a product called SensorTag which is basically a development board for working with Bluetooth 4.0. I was immediately intrigued as iOS 5.0 supports Bluetooth 4.0 (LE) and lets me write apps that aren't certified by Apple via the Made for iPhone program. I ordered the device (it was $25 which I consider a bargain) and then in early December, it arrived.