Tag Archives: Programming

Back to Basics – Let's Go To School

Deciding that I shouldn't limit my options to just Marketing-only jobs - just in case - I'm going through all the programming books I bought as well.
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Silverlight and MVC: Thunderstorm in Paradise

New developers tend to get frustrated when confronted with random, weird errors. Enough to start uninstalling anything and everything like they're paid by the byte. I take a more pragmatic approach: why perform an appendectomy with a sledgehammer when a scalple is indicated?
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My Saturday Project

If I didn't know better, I'd say I was up to some serious shit. Just think of all the crazy ninja crap you could do with a 5-port Ethernet switch, a 3-meter elastic band and four motorola chargers.
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What a Weekend!

I had a crazy, packed weekend, complete with Technology Student Association conference and castle ballistics competition, bar hopping, bad pizza, Defending the Caveman, and the rocky mountain tech trifecta!
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Being AGILE

I started to look into the Scrum methodology (because who doesn't like rugby!) and I discovered that a lot of the principles that programmers use to implement agile development could also be applied to any complex project.
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Psychotic Debugging: Debugging PsychoticResumes.com

I'm crazy like Gary Busey when it comes to tracking bugs - I know exactly what changes I made, when I made them, and which files were affected. Since WordPress doesn't really have a client version control system (particularly for plugins) you have to track for yourself.
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It's 4 AM – Do you know where your website is?

The culmination of ONE amp energy drink, 2 hours of continuous work, a 30 minute break and then another 8 hours of continuous work... I'm pretty proud of the GitNit Right web design.
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My New Dev Machine!

I finally broke down and bought my netbook - the HP Mini 1035NR.
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