When I started this post, it was going to be a revolutionary post, talking about something that was really bothering me. As I have spent more time thinking about this, the answer seems so simple and obvious, still there was a time where I did not get this concept, so I here is a brief post on the topic, The question is, in straight C, will this work: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 #include <stdio....
Software quality can be measured in many ways. Complexity, efficiency, executable size, these are just a few of the potential metrics. The bad news is that these aren’t normally mutually exclusive. Normally if you maximize one, you might reduce the others. The hardest part of being a developer is deciding where to sacrifice and potentially how to marry the important metrics for each component we write. Sometimes, however, we make a bad decision and write what we would call bad code....
I recently finished reading Head Rush AJAX and would like to share my comments on the book. This book is written by Head First Labs and is the first of the series I have read. I picked it up because of a recommendation from a friend. I remember looking with disdain at the books in the series when I had seen them on the shelf. I remember thinking, “They look so elementary, we don’t need another ‘For Dummies’ series”....
Getting Things Done (GTD) has become increasingly popular in past few years. There have been many attempts to build an application that integrates with the whole framework. As a mac user I have been aware of a few, but the big one of the past was Kinkless GTD. This application consists of a bunch of applescripts meant to work with OmniOutliner. There was a lot of hype surrounding the application, and for good reason, it was one of the best options out there....
I have a friend who asked me for a reading list of books. This friend is in a computer related field, but does not have extensive programming background. This could potentially be an issue when applying for jobs, or actually in the job world. In order to help this friend out, I spent some time coming up with a list of books I think should be read by a person in this position....