Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
I've going through, slowly but surely, the code on my blog to get everything validated. (And yes, I know I still have a lot of work to do, no need to tell me LOL) The biggest problem is with embedded links to videos and I'm getting there with those (it's ...
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Saturday, April 30th, 2005
If you work in software development you've probably been in or at least heard of a situation like this before: the boss wants some new swanky bit of tech and you're the developer assigned the job. Not a problem... you love new challenges and this one seems like it'll be ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
My friend Greg and I are always talking about all aspects of development, and something that I've always thought is much more elegantly described in the following quote:
It is worth remembering that a new programming language is sometimes viewed as a panacea, especially by its adherents; however, there is no ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
I believe that it's not the language, specifically, that is used that will determine the success of a (software) development project; it's the design of the system as a whole and the considerations made in the Planning and/or Analyze phase of the project.
I really bothers me when I hear people ...
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2004
I've been reading a lot of work-related books lately... in fact, just last night I finished reading "Peopleware". It's been on my "To Read" list for a while and has been recommended to me by many, many people. After reading it I can see why.
The authors, Tom DeMarco and Timothy ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2003
Obfuscated yet pronounceable passwords have always been a favorite with me, and I even went so far as to create my own PHP version of a pronounceable password-generation system about a year ago. But I never knew that there was an actual program that dealt with generating them until I ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2003
I'm a big stickler for documenting code. In-line comments, using doxygen or a tool like it... anything is better than nothing. Anyhow, I was doing a code review earlier today and when I asked why there was no documentation the developer said this to me:
We've got so much diagraming, we ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2001
Reentrancy is a bitch.
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2001
HOODY-HOO!!!
Just found out that my name will be listed as a co-inventor of a patent for the company I work for!!! I'm so psyched. Of course, the actual patent will probably take a few years to get approved (it's the government and a bunch of lawyers working together, folks!), but ...
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