Over the past several months I’ve mentioned occasionally that I’m working on a new software development focused podcast. The time has finally come for me to make a more official announcement about this new endeavour.
The new show called Short Order Code. The show will be a
series of audio podcasts and video screencasts focusing [...]
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New Podcast: Short Order Code
August 14th, 2009 3 Comments
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Honing the Craft
August 10th, 2009 No Comments
We were on vacation for a couple of months back staying with my wife’s family in the US. I didn’t completely unplug during the trip, though I wasn’t checking work email, my personal accounts were down to a cursory glance once-per-day, and I’ve dialed back on the Twitter usage quite significantly.
In some of my [...]
Tags: Development · learning · musings · Programming · software
Stack Overflow – Where Experts Exchange Information
May 17th, 2009 No Comments
Last year a new Q&A site for developers called Stack Overflow was opened to the public. We covered the site a bit on an episode of the AGP a few months back, but I just realized the other day that I hadn’t posted about it here.
The site is focused on the interaction between software [...]
Tags: Development · Internet · Programming · services · sites · software · stack overflow · Web 2.0
AnkhSVN and Visual Studio 2008
May 13th, 2009 1 Comment
Source control is one of those things that developers get really polarized about. Most agree that having source control on projects is a necessity, but that’s typically were the similarities end. Some folks are of the mind that every line of code, however insignificant, should be under source control. This provides records of what was [...]
Tags: ankhsvn · best practices · Development · Open Source · Programming · source control · subversion · svn · Technology · version control · visual studio · Windows
Regaining my Chops
June 30th, 2009 No Comments
It’s been a good long while since I’ve written much in the way of production code. I’ve tinkered here and there with some small side projects, but rarely have I given much thought into how those pieces of code were written so long as they got the job done; after all I didn’t expect [...]
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