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Good talk on programmer productivity

Jason    29 May 2009 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on Good talk on programmer productivity

TheServerSide is hosting a really good address by Neal Ford on programmer productivity in an enterprise called Productive Programmer: On the Lam from the Furniture Police. He’s got some good thoughts on how the mind works and how to structure things to maximize productivity.  A lot of it is very similar… Read more »

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Programming with a Dvorak keyboard

Jason    09 Mar 2009 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on Programming with a Dvorak keyboard

About four years ago, I decided to switch my keyboard layout from QWERTY to Dvorak.  I was starting to get some pain in my wrists, and I’d read that Dvorak reduced a lot of the repetitive motions that I thought were causing my troubles.  I’ve played piano for decades, so… Read more »

Programming     dvorak

Control Characters in XML: A conundrum

Jason    20 Jan 2009 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on Control Characters in XML: A conundrum

I’m working on a web service client which wraps up a bunch of character data and submits it for processing and storage.  Doesn’t sound too tricky, and for the most part, it isn’t. Unfortunately, it appears that the application that produces the initial data allows characters that are not valid… Read more »

Programming     XML

An irritant with keyref in XML Schema (fix)

Jason    10 Dec 2008 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on An irritant with keyref in XML Schema (fix)

It turns out that my problem was just an issue with scoping, and was probably made more complex-looking because of the use of refs and groups within the XSD I was given. To fix the issue raised here, I had to get the <unique>  and <keyref>  nodes at the same… Read more »

Programming     XML, XSD

Thoughts on using Groovy for unit tests

Jason    05 Dec 2008 04 Oct 2020    No Comments on Thoughts on using Groovy for unit tests

I’ve been working with Groovy in my current contract.  I’d been hearing about it for a few years, ever since some JavaOne fireside chat mentioned it as an example of the future flexibility of the JVM, but I hadn’t done anything with it.  Over the past few months I’ve come… Read more »

Programming     groovy, unit testing

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