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Intensity does not correlate to pervasiveness: An anecdote

Jason    05 Nov 2020 05 Nov 2020    No Comments on Intensity does not correlate to pervasiveness: An anecdote

I am pretty picky about my keyboards. I use the Dvorak layout, which I’ve talked about before. I have spent a lot of money on hard-coded Dvorak keyboards. I’ve spent more on building my own Ergodox keyboard, plus burned many hours programming it with the layout I want. I have… Read more »

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The Pitfalls of Archaeological Programming

Jason    05 Jun 2020 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on The Pitfalls of Archaeological Programming

Recently at work, I was voluntold to update an application to include a feature needed to support a new business offering. It was a fairly simple app that ran as a Windows service and essentially managed other applications so that they could be treated as services without having to be… Read more »

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On Having Productive Arguments

Jason    05 Oct 2017 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on On Having Productive Arguments

As a programmer, a large part of my job is to translate what a client wants to happen into data and algorithms that allow a computer (which has no idea what the client wants) to reliably produce the desired results. I use translate deliberately, because often the technical folks and the business folks… Read more »

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On knowing what we don’t know

Jason    02 Oct 2017 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on On knowing what we don’t know

It’s not specific to software development, but this article on it says: The first stage of learning is knowing what to learn. While trite, it’s true – there’s what we know, what we don’t know and what we don’t know we don’t know. This regularly comes up in planning, stand… Read more »

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What’s the function of this function?

Jason    03 Aug 2017 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on What’s the function of this function?

I came across this post by Martin Fowler today, and it got me thinking. I’m pretty serious about decomposing methods for re-use, and I definitely prefer shorter methods, but I haven’t been quite as strict about it as what I’ve heard him and others say (e.g. if it doesn’t fit… Read more »

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