Last month the Hanselminutes podcast had a great interview titled You don’t know JS with Getify (Kyle Simpson) about his book of the same name. While the book series sounds like a great resource, I really enjoyed hearing a constructive discussion of many of the concerns I’ve had about the rapidly growing popularity of Javascript. …
The following tutorial was first published on my website and is Copyright © Shawn South 2002. All rights reserved. Computers only understand numbers The first thing to understand about computers is that they are nothing more than a powerful, glorified calculator. The only thing they know – the only thing they understand – is numbers. …
Just finished watching the ReSharper Secrets video on the JetBrainsTV channel on YouTube. Several good tips there. Definitely worth watching. The presenter spends the bulk of the time talking about Annotations – which are how ReSharper works a lot of its magic and are now available to us for decorating our own code. He closes …
My friend Dan recently asked Has anyone already written the code to use the AVR on the Gertboard for the Raspberry Pi as a simple GPIO expansion/demux? I don’t have an answer for him, but maybe you do, or know somebody who does? Seattle to sport one of the first Bitcoin ATMs in the U.S. …
I’m going to try something new, in an effort to both share things I find out about and write more. Each week I’ll compile a list of cool and/or useful tools, information, tips, etc. and post them here each Friday: Listened to a great Hanselminutes podcast interview with Model View Culture – A new media …
Every developer should listen to Hanselminutes #396 Bugs Considered Harmful with Douglas Crockford Especially new software developers. I, too, have observed the trend Crockford mentions: The ignorance of what has come before and the whys of our industry. The obsession with Cool New Shiny and Faster-faster-faster! The latter is especially in my mind recently as …
This blog post was written specifically for my co-workers at Washington State community and technical colleges, but I suspect will be useful to anyone getting started with Github, so I am posting it here. This post is Copyright (c) 2013, Bellevue College and the State of Washington. First, some definitions Git A software tool for …
For the last year or so, I’ve been slowly building up a personal Knowledge Base using Evernote (a direct link is to the right). This is a place where I save tidbits of information related to software development – stuff that I think I’ll probably want to look up later, because I’ve forgotten the precise …
Working as a member of a software development team (as opposed to being the only programmer on a project) can have some subtle, but very important differences. I’d like to share with you some of the tips and advice I’ve come up with over the years to reduce headaches and frustration – both for me …