Nostalgia is defined as a longing for the past. Many things give me a feeling of nostalgia: old pictures, 80’s music, Robert Aspirin books. The list goes on. It’s just not my development environment, and it better not be for you either. As developers we should be moving forward with not just with our technologies, but [...]
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 friend [...]
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. [...]
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 become [...]
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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 [...]
