“Hello, hello again.” The Cars This web site has languished long enough. It’s finally time to dust off those eleven draft posts that have been sitting around for years and start producing content again. Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on my wife’s web site for her psychology practice, a WordPress site …
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George Orwell and Effective Coding
I spend a lot of time and effort trying to get better at the craft of software development. My goal every day is to fall asleep as a better programmer than the one that awoke that morning. While this involves a lot of reading and practice within the field, I usually learn more by studying …
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Olympic Note Passing
A good analogy can often be useful to explain intricate technical details. In an earlier article, “Wrong Fish Food”, I related an analogy that I used to describe a technical issue to a non-technical audience. This article shares an analogy I created for a technical audience, because sometimes even techies need an analogy to grasp …
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Hyphens. Use them. They’re important.
I hate to follow one rant with another one, but I’ve got to get this off my chest. Look at these pictures: See the difference? The first picture is of a high-school student (my elder daughter, Madeline). The second picture is of a high school student (Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at …
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