Reality Loop

August 14, 2008
Salary vs. Suckage - is there a relation?

Jay Fields recently has some interesting posts about his career and his opinion of the current state in enterprise software development. The following quote from Be Your Start-Up I found especially thought-provoking: Two and a half years and a lo...
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July 24, 2008
Path to paradise

Thou shalt study thy libraries and strive not to reinvent them without cause, that thy code may be short and readable and thy days pleasant and productive. . -- The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
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July 22, 2008
A voice from the past ... shouting TDD!

1972, I was not yet born when Edsger W. Dijkstra wrote The Humble Programmer [html] and promoted the following: But one should not first make the program and then prove its correctness, because then the requirement of providing the proof wou...
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July 21, 2008
Productivity singularity vs. asymptotic inertia

Scott Bellware: I don't think we have a lot of productivity in software development! I think we have a lot of productivity built around the moment of creation of software, which is such an infinitely short period of time. It is relatively insign...
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July 16, 2008
Converting html to pdf

I wanted to put the content of the SCEA 5 Study Guide in one single pdf document. This is what I did: Download all the files used by the page with wget: wget -r http://java.boot.by/scea5-guide/ Convert the downloaded html-pages into one ...
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