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 [...]
I knew that when I started the job search, I would ultimately end up doing a lot of algorithm development in my interviews, so I made an investment in a good dry-erase whiteboard to practice on. I explained to Susanna that, as a programmer, a whiteboard is just as important as the computer or code [...]
In my spare time this weekend, I wrote a maze solving algorithm, which is reminiscent of a program I wrote as homework over a year ago, but slightly better. Its still wasteful in terms of efficient moves, but the improvements can come later. Here’s a snippet of some methods from it, for the curious:
[...]
I found this today, which some may find useful. It provides prepackaged Eclipse distributions for certain tasks, all ready to go.
http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html
This article may be the most important one you ever read, if you’re a programmer, or in any way related to the software industry.
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, [...]
This link was entertaining and worth sharing:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/469445/last-words-of-a-programmer
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.