Read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html.
I was originally focused on "beauty". Clearly, good design is beautiful. Isn't that obvious? Why so many words to explain the obvious?
The post seemed useless. Why write it in the first place? Why share it? Why share it now, 12 years …
more ...Someone told me they weren't yet ready to write "serious code." They needed to spend more time doing something that's not coding.
I'm unclear on what they were doing. It appears they have some barriers that I can't see.
They had sample data. They had a problem statement. They had …
more ...Or. Why I Hate Windows. For Mac OS X, you download XCode (for free) and you can build anything. For Linux, you use some kind of yum or rpm installer for the developer tools, and you can build anything. For Windows... Pre-built binaries. 😂 And a hope that the version numbers …
more ...Actual quote:
"they spend a lot of time maintaining regular expressions. So, what are the alternatives to regular expression hell?"
Regular Expression Hell? It's a thing?
I have several thoughts:
Read this: How 'DevOps' is Killing the Developer
My pull-out quote:
This is why we see so many developers that can't pass FizzBuzz: they never really had to write any code.
I agree: It appears that DevOps may be more symptom than solution.
I have one tiny objection to any …
more ...The conventional wisdom on class design is to model real-world things. This is the Domain-Driven Design Approach. It's what we used to teach as Rumbaugh's OMT (prior to the Three Amigos creating UML.)
The idea is simple: Look at the real world objects. Describe them. Classes will have attributes and …
more ...Required Reading: https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150304-agile My takeaway quote? "Scrum lags behind the modern toolchain enough that there can be a Potemkin village vibe to the whole thing." I was clued into this from another takeaway quote someone seconded on Twitter: "Waterfall used too much written communication, but …
more ...From a sound engineer I know:
https://www.avid.com/US/products/pro-tools-software#Features
more ...This is the new Pro Tools, it's now a subscription, for a mere $200 a year to stay current. However, if you peruse the list of new features, they all say "coming soon". You pay a …
There's much to learn. The idea of digesting knowledge down to a pithy little proverb is interesting.
https://github.com/AntJanus/programmers-proverbs
http://futurice.com/blog/programmer-proverbs
http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/bumper-sticker-computer-science
Some of it's new to me. Some of it's timeless.
Also, this http://www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma …
more ...Seems silly at first.
http://blogs.perceptionsystem.com/infographic/java-vs-python-programming-language-productive
It's mostly true. It's also incomplete.
For example, "no tuples in Java" ignores http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/package-summary.html.
It seems like the only interesting takeaway from the infographic is that Java …
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