Today I went back and re-read Joel Spolsky’s advice The Law of Leaky Abstractions and it hits a nail on the head about what peers from EWU were missing:
“Learn how to do it manually first, then use abstractions to save time. Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, [...]
Updated 6/29/2009 : 09:15pm
I’ve been thinking for some time about the possibility of starting another website. This blog is certainly where I post general goings-on with me and my programming, but I think it would be cool to create a website dedicated to teaching up-and-coming programmers things, categorized in an easy to navigate way. This [...]
Bachelors degree achieved.
The code below is from an interesting problem I was solving as part of practice for an upcoming programming competition. It’s purpose is to read in a series of strings from an input file (the number of which is defined on the first line of that file), and discover the various permutations of the letters [...]
So I have some time this weekend, so I’m using it effectively.
Finishing a brush-up skim read through of Code Complete
Starting Design Patterns
Learning Ant
Brushing up on C++ skills in anticipation of…
Thinking about some planning aspects of a project Ian and I are starting
Playing around with some SVN commands I’d not used before
I’m also still working on [...]
It’s been a fair amount of time since I last posted warning of the dry spell in my blogging, but I think things have stabilized to a point where I can offer some words.
Of course, the primary reason for my busyness as of late is the 4 classes I’m taking this quarter, CSCD350 Software Engineering, [...]
There is likely going to be a several month pause in my blog postings, because I’m caught in a tidal wave of work + 4 class projects (2 of which I have to manage).
See you in March.
So I posted a significant update to PHCL in which I reworked all the classes to be less dependent on one another (most are completely independent). The goal is of course to make the classes more modular, so that changing one portion will not cause problems in another. This is of course common good practice, [...]
For this upcoming quarter our instructor has slated a colleague and I to develop a web application in PHP using a MSSQL database, seperate from the standard student projects. In preparation for this, I decided to set up a development box so we could get started early. It was completely unnecessary for us to get [...]
I’ve spent the past couple days working towards getting a common development environment set up, so that I don’t have to use different IDE’s and tools. I’m trying to get everything situated, since Winter quarter is likely to be one of the most programming intensive quarters that I’ve had. I want to be prepared, so [...]