{"id":232,"date":"2012-04-26T23:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T06:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2012-04-26T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T06:26:08","slug":"8-years-at-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2012\/04\/26\/8-years-at-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"8 years at VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, one of my coworkers complained about doing maintenance on a project that he had moved away from.  I told him that authoring code is like having a child: you can&#8217;t say you&#8217;re tired of it and abandon it.  If you brought it into this world, you should take some responsibility for it.  If you&#8217;re not prepared to do that, don&#8217;t have that baby.<\/p>\n<p>I was joking, of course, but perhaps it&#8217;s not a completely ridiculous comparison (although I suspect that my friends who are actual parents might disagree).<\/p>\n<p>Today marks my eight year anniversary at VMware.  For those past 8 years, I&#8217;ve spent 40 hours per week (well, probably more) developing VMware Workstation, watching it grow and trying to imbue it with whatever knowledge I have.  A number of people tell me that I&#8217;ve been at VMware for too long and should move on, but I&#8217;m not ready to let go yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, one of my coworkers complained about doing maintenance on a project that he had moved away from. I told him that authoring code is like having a child: you can&#8217;t say you&#8217;re tired of it and abandon it. If you brought it into this world, you should take some responsibility for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-programming","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}