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Re: How I used Criticue to quickly iterate on my PaidCodeReview design

derwiki — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:14:10 -0000

I have friends who have hired contractors to review their codebase. Sounds like your internal team could use some external review ;-)

Re: The Unexpected Outcomes Of Code Review

derwiki — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:15:00 -0000

Another benefit of code review is just knowing you're going to be showing your code to somebody else. Because of code reviews, I got into the habit of giving my code one final look through before I submit a pull request.

I also think that "knowledge transfer" can be a very beneficial aspect to code reviews, but maybe not always from the people on your team who you work with every day. I've often found that asking a good programmer to review a snippet of code will teach me solutions I wouldn't have otherwise thought of. This motivated me to start PaidCodeReview.com, where you can quickly find an expert to look over your code and provide you with feedback.

Re: Hitting the ground running: A Python programmer builds a 1-day Rails 3.1 app

derwiki — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:52:42 -0000

I started looking at virtualized solutions, but my 3-year-professional-Rails-developer roommate refused to let me do anything but get it set up natively. If it weren't for him, I probably would have looked at VirtualBox. Are there any VMs that have Rails 3.1 up and going out of the box?

Re: Hitting the ground running: A Python programmer builds a 1-day Rails 3.1 app

derwiki — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:51:26 -0000

Thanks, fixed!

Re: Hitting the ground running: A Python programmer builds a 1-day Rails 3.1 app

derwiki — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:50:17 -0000

$60 -> 100k impressions -> 20 clicks. Overall (before this blog post) I had about 100 uniques. My former roommate worked as a sales rep on AdWords, and she told me that 'business cards' is definitely a pay to play vertical. It would be fun to test another microsite the next time I get an AdWords voucher. This blog post by far has been the biggest traffic driver though. Thanks for the feedback! I'll Add export-to-PDF to the issues.

Re: Experimenting with Github to increase personal technical productivity

derwiki — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:48:28 -0000

Sounds like a good strategy. `git` itself is less important -- Github for the community/social aspect and the promise of 1 commit a day is what's got me all hot and bothered :)

Re: Talk on British things vs. Slides on British Stuff | YouTube Doubler | Mashup Helper

derwiki — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:11:42 -0000

sudo apt-get install filter && man filter

Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SSH

derwiki — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:00:50 -0000

Mace- sshfs is a -great- tool, and also one that you can put in /etc/fstab if you have your credentials set up properly. Thanks for the tip!

Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SSH

derwiki — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:59:37 -0000

Hey Mike- Definitely agree, I use it when possible (as noted). My ugly one liner is for systems that don't have it (OS X is the one I've found).

Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SSH

derwiki — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:58:35 -0000

What would be the advantage of this over the command I suggested?

Re: Timelapse Photography with your spare Ubuntu Box and Digital Camera

derwiki — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:05:35 -0000

don't talk about my external hard drive that way! (her name is gadget)

Re: Completion audio alerts for long running, remote jobs

derwiki — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:20:35 -0000

Thanks davertron, this is definitely a good suggestion as well!

Re: Completion audio alerts for long running, remote jobs

derwiki — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:19:55 -0000

@Mayo I tried that at first, but my terminal wasn't picking up on ^G from ssh. I tried running it remotely over ssh too, but realized it needed a terminal to read it to actually make the beeping. I like using 'say' anyway, it can give you more information than "this finished."

Re: Requested: My Photography Workflow/Equipment - Adobe Aperture - Benjamin Golub's Blog

derwiki — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:58:49 -0000

More people need to delete most of their photos :) I generally delete 75% of what I take, but hopefully it filters out enough of the junk that people don't mind looking at the album. I generally do "auto white balance" and "color enhance" from GIMP (I can't run fancy Adobe software on Ubuntu), and that takes care of 95% of the cases. Sometimes "color enhance" is too much, and I go in and play with the RGB values by hand. I use F-Spot to upload everything to Flickr, but I don't use the photo management aspect of it. From Flickr, I sometimes use Flickurbook to transfer them over to Facebook.

Thanks for posting Ben!

Re: What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ From Linux Before I Started

derwiki — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:00:49 -0000

Thanks for tip Mark. I actually started using xargs when I started having problems with filenames that have spaces in them, doing the whole [ find . -print0 | xargs (...) ] dance. $(..) certainly looks a lot cleaner, I'll have to start using that!

Re: What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ From Linux Before I Started

derwiki — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:20:04 -0000

We've got a pretty heavily modified build script set up for our project. Like I said, I can't run Eclipse on the remote dev box, and haven't figured out a good solution for mounting the remote code into my local filesystem (switching between wireless and wired makes sshfs a royal pain).

Re: What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ From Linux Before I Started

derwiki — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:16:53 -0000

I wouldn't dream of it. I still do Java dev in Eclipse, but.. well, I haven't done Java dev in a while. Vim/emacs works pretty well for C/C++

Re: records i have come to own in the past 96 hours

derwiki — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:06:33 -0000

American Beauty, Zeppelin II, and Night at the Opera are oldies but goodies. I think that's the Queen album with Bohemian Rhapsody, so rock that one hard!