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Goals for 2010

07-Jan-10

So I’ve been mulling around what I want to do, at least in terms of my development skills and community type stuff, in 2010 (The year we make contact). I figure if I blog them up here, I can refer back to them and check on my progress at the end of the year.

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Pros don’t make do

23-Nov-09

I had a locksmith come out to replace a doorknob that had gone bad. It had gradually gotten hard and harder to turn and finally the bolt got stuck inside the door. Which meant the only thing keeping the door shut was the deadbolt. I had replaced doorknobs before, but this one had a non-standard [...]

We need a language for programmers

17-Nov-09

Here is a great rant about “modern” programming languages.
And so for 20 years now these folks —
*the* shining lights, in many ways, of “practical” programming
language, operating systems, and general systems research — have
continued to fail to “get” the fundamental practical needs of everyday
programmers working in The Real World. “Go” is just another language
written first [...]

Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control are not rocket surgery

03-Nov-09

I see a lot of people talking about how “advanced” techniques like dependency injection and inversion of control are and how their team won’t understand either technique.
 
Folks, this isn’t hard. In fact, both of these things are so simple I simply call it “using the programming language”.
 
Let’s look at dependency injection.
PLAIN TEXT
C#:

public class MyClass

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Great Presentaton about software development

26-Oct-09

Hopefully someone will post video of the presenter giving the presentation to fill in the gaps.
Bits of Evidence
View more presentations from Greg Wilson.

Announcing WebOSSFlame

24-Sep-09

 
The free world is proud to announce an old program for startups looking to do web development. When you sign up for the WebOSSFlame program, you get the following:

Free, unlimited licenses to the Debian or SuSE server platform
Free, unlimited licenses to the MySQL AND PostgreSQL database servers
Free, unlimited usage of either the Ruby, Python, or [...]

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