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Re: 14 tips and tools to resolve conflicts with Git

cwbrandsma — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 12:42:54 -0000

I have to learn to be less hasty. :)

Re: 14 tips and tools to resolve conflicts with Git

cwbrandsma — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:38:01 -0000

Also missing, SourceGear DiffMerge https://sourcegear.com/diff...

Re: 7 Mistakes You’re Making In Your Programming Career

cwbrandsma — Thu, 21 May 2015 11:21:31 -0000

7 Common Career Mistakes Programmers Make
7 Mistakes Programmers can make in their Career

Which leads to item 8: Bad at naming things. (There are only two things that are hard in computer science, invalidating cache and naming things)

Re: 7 Mistakes You’re Making In Your Programming Career

cwbrandsma — Tue, 19 May 2015 16:50:55 -0000

Your title is presumptive.

Re: Why Comments Are Stupid, a Real Example

cwbrandsma — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:44:07 -0000

I separate out different types of comments.

First is API documentation. These are still comments, but are also seen by outside developers, and "compiled" by another documentation system. Typically I write my code with a plugin architecture and 3rd party developers in mind anyway.

Second type of comment is an apology comment. Looks like this:
// Sorry, this code is ugly, but I could figure out a cleaner way to write this .
My co-worker has shorted it to
// FOR NOW.
This just acknowledges some of the various types of code debet that happen, and leave it marked so it can be searched out later and clean up.

Re: The Ultimate List of Programming Books

cwbrandsma — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:41:35 -0000

I'll play devil's advocate (cause, it is fun to do from time to time).

Design Patterns (GoF) and Domain Driven Design led me to write some of the WORST code of my entire life. Once done it was a nightmare overly abstracted of code -- play the game of "follow the call stack". I will say the same thing about my first attempts at TDD. I'm not saying to avoid those books, but read with caution.

The rest of the book are good. :)

Re: adfasdfa

cwbrandsma — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:42:28 -0000

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Re: Comment

cwbrandsma — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:54 -0000

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cwbrandsma — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:46 -0000

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cwbrandsma — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:43 -0000

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cwbrandsma — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:39 -0000

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cwbrandsma — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:37 -0000

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Re: adfasdfa

cwbrandsma — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:15 -0000

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Re: Comment

cwbrandsma — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:33:02 -0000

test 123

Re: Pets vs. Cattle

cwbrandsma — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:55:36 -0000

Another dairy/farm kid here. I grew up on a medium sized dairy with about 500 milk cows (yes, that is medium to small in my area). I've had to put down my fair share of livestock, pets, and prey (I hunt).

To give an analogy for the city kids here: a good milk cow can cost as much as your MacBook Pro.

Basically, be nice to the city kids, most of them only see farms from the free-way.

Re: Why We Need More Complex Programming Languages (Yes, You Heard Me Right!)

cwbrandsma — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:32:13 -0000

There is ample room for both simple and complex languages. For example: assembly is a pretty simple language, but at the same time, complex enough to create every other language out there. If I'm using a shell language (like Bash), I don't want a very complex language either. In fact, once you get to the size of C++, things can get disastrous, as no one really understands the entire language!

But, as with most languages, the complexity isn't in the expressiveness of the language, but in the features of the libraries you can use with that language. That sets the stage for what problems you try to solve with it, and how complex the problems are. That is really why the size of C++ isn't really the issue, but learning the ins-and-outs of STL is rather daunting.

If you really want to get into an interesting topic, start playing with language symmetry. That is how consistently does the language feel like itself, and not a mashup-up of language features. I think C# and Java do pretty good here, but C++ and Objective C fall flat (that is actually why the languages are difficult, it feels like you are context switching in the language -- because you are).

Re: I am Joining the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Team

cwbrandsma — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:30:03 -0000

Well, this sucks for Boise, loosing another one, but I am very happy for you. Hopefully we can have a beer before you ship off.

Re: My Developers Life – The Importance of Physical Exercise

cwbrandsma — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:31:52 -0000

There are other life choices here other than before and after work. What are you doing for lunch? How long do you have? I take a walk as part of my lunch. Sometimes entertaining baby for me is putting baby in a stroller and walking....even better because often baby will fall asleep in the stroller as well. I also use that time to catch up with my wife.

Granted, my baby is now 2.5 years, but baby also has 4 other siblings -- and none are old enough to babysit on their own, so my problems compound.

Re: Software Professional Code of Ethics

cwbrandsma — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:19:56 -0000

Have you considered you might be working in a hostile environment and might need a job change? Or has "bitter" invaded you psyche to the point of non-extraction?

Re: Software Professional Code of Ethics

cwbrandsma — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:16:10 -0000

I'd agree with this. As I am dealing with people that don't understand that they are 'being a dick', and can comprehend why they aren't liked (assuming they notice).

Re: Getting hacked and seven levels of indirection

cwbrandsma — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:29:53 -0000

Hi Ronaldo, Thank you for that update.

Re: Tabs versus spaces: Spaces won

cwbrandsma — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:13:52 -0000

Trying to remember the last time I cared about this "issue".. Sorry, still don't care.

Re: Fickle Bits: Creating a Glow Effect for UILabel and UIButton

cwbrandsma — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:21:25 -0000

I use that trick a lot as well. What I'm still trying to figure out is how to make decent looking buttons without a. using a ton of images, b. writing a ton of code.

Seems to be little middle ground with Quarts.

Re: SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed : Rob Conery

cwbrandsma — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:25:24 -0000

I'd like some more information on the provider model changes you mentioned. I'm working with a non-standard database and will probably have to write the provider myself, so any help would be great.

Re: Alt.NET Podcast Episode 1: Continuous Improvement

cwbrandsma — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:06:44 -0000

Excellent discussion, much better than the .Net Rocks podcast actually -- which tried to focus too much on NHibernate (and tooling in general) and not enough on practices.

Very well done. So what is up next? :)