If you’re like me you’ve got thousands of songs in your iTunes library. I got a new notebook PC a couple months back, and I decided to move all my music to it since it’s got plenty of disk space. I know I had lots of songs in my library whose files didn’t exist anymore. [...]
First. Let’s define FLOSS. It’s Free/Libre Open Source Software. The Wiki entry describes it much better than I could, so if you’re interested you can read more here. The first FLOSS pick of the week is TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is an open source disk encryption utility for Windows (2000, XP, Vista) and Linux. What I like [...]
Here’s an excellent article that 3 paths to career self-sabotage. Part of being a good developer has to include having a job! This article has motivated me to add a new point to the list of things I’m going to do to become a better developer. I’ll create a personal action plan for my professional [...]
Remember the scene from the Shining where the wife finds out what Jack Nicholson’s character has been working so hard on? Pages and pages of the text “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.” As software developers we should all heed this warning. As I was thinking about some of the things I could do to [...]
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If you regularly read many of the development blogs on the Internet, you’ve probably seen at least one entry devoted to how someone is going to be a better developer (usually in the next 6 months). In a nutshell, I’ll list some things I’ll do to make myself a better developer. I’ll use ideas I’ve [...]