Weekly roundup, March 17, 2014
MS tech webinar, image multi-tool, call for developers, code review tools, PhpStorm.
Weekly roundup, March 10, 2014
Incentivizing software issues, free images for your blog, testing Javascript, automating browser tests.
Weekly roundup, March 3rd 2014
Mock EF databases, cure cancer while you sleep, API jobs, nutrition calculators, & a better traceroute.
Video: ReSharper Secrets
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 …
Weekly roundup, 2-21-2014
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. …
Weekly roundup 2-14-2014
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 …
Correctness is more important than performance
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 …
Using Github
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 …
The lessons in Mat Honan’s terrible, horrible, awful day
There’s been a lot of good discussion around the recent hacking of a high-profile columnist for Wired. What are the key lessons, though? This article attempts to distill the most important advice we’ve learned from Mat Honan’s experience.
Experimenting with a new tool for my Knowledge Base
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 …