Tim on October 7th, 2007

Attention boys and girls! Before we start having fun solving all our problems with elegant code, we’ve got an important rule to discuss. The Internet is a great resource for software developers, but beware. Control-V should be used with caution. Don’t copy-paste code unless you fully understand what it’s doing. We’ve all seen this situation:  A [...]

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Tim on October 3rd, 2007

While reading Jeff Atwood’s excellent Coding Horror blog entry today about branching and source control I had a flashback to my childhood reading Marvel comics. He mentioned the What If series, and it just got me thinking of other what if tech scenarios. The first what if I want to discuss is the iPhone. What [...]

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