Introducing me!

Hi, I'm Chris.

I'm a software developer and for the past year or so I've been working at Cogi. Prior to joining Cogi, I had worked with a couple others on the team, and was really excited to be working with them again in a fast paced, dynamic environment focused on developing high-quality software written in Python.

Most of my development background is in C++ and Python, though I've been known to dabble in Flex, Java, Lisp, and lately Objective C, plus quite a few others. I tend to enjoy writing supporting libraries (like managing threads or state machines, etc), but also write a good deal of client- and server-based code.

My language of choice is, without a doubt, Python. I've worked with several other languages, and looking back I now see how much time I wasted fighting with them. I love how Python just gets out of my way and helps me get the job done. (Of course there was the initial shock of "what, no curly braces and indentation matters?", but I quickly got over that.) I've been using Python since around 2.3, and I'm loving the continually improving language, right on up to Python 3.x.

I'll be writing entries that mostly focus on working with Python, or some of the various tools and libraries that we use with Python, but I will likely also write entries for other projects and processes that we're involved with here at Cogi.

If you have thoughts or questions, please feel free to ask -- I like to think that I'm pretty good about responding to emails or comments, so fire away!

Introducing the Cogi Engineering Blog

Welcome to the new Cogi engineering blog!

As you may have guessed from the title, this blog is maintained by the software engineering department at Cogi. We are a bunch of developers with a wide range of experience that have come together to build what we believe are the "best of breed" recording and transcription solutions for your phone, computer, and mobile devices.

Over the next couple of weeks, several of us (the developers at Cogi) will likely write short introductions about ourselves, explaining what we do at Cogi, what our primary development areas are, and what kinds of topics we are likely to write about. You can expect to see engineering expertise ranging from embedded signal processing to web development, to desktop and mobile client development. Figuring out how to make our solutions be scalable, reliable, correct and robust is one of our many core strengths.

Here at Cogi, we do a wide variety of development work using the Scrum development process. We build client applications, web and telephony servers, and transcription engines in Python, Objective C, C and C++. We also have experience working with SQL databases and C# .NET applications.

We are extremely excited to enter the blogging world, to share our experiences and learn from yours. Please feel free to contact us either via the comment system, directly through our profiles, or via email at devblog@cogi.com.