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Comment on 10 Things by admin

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:27:01 +0000

Matt, you are right. I guess there is more overlap than I thought at first.

Comment on 10 Things by Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:19:48 +0000

We took different angles, but I think we have a fair amount of overlap (0, 5, 7). Now that I read your list I feel like adding to my own!

Comment on Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade by Raleigh Area Ruby Brigade « MTR

Raleigh Area Ruby Brigade « MTR — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:43:42 +0000

[...] friend Eric is going to start a new Ruby on Rails Hack Night group in the area. Hopefully I have time to join [...]

Comment on Kindle by Bea Crane

Bea Crane — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:32:38 +0000

That’s no way to talk about my Kindle! But I do agree with you:-)

Comment on Developer Productivity by suzy wandson

suzy wandson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:16:25 +0000

I saw your blog while searching Google. Very interesing article I must say. I will now share it with my facebook friends.

Comment on Enjoying Work and Being Productive by admin

admin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:08:21 +0000

I have seen plenty of times that two men have disagreed and worked together respectfully to find a resolution that worked for everyone. I have also seen women who refused to listen, compromise or back down from their own position, even in the slightest. I don’t think that ego is a male thing. But I think that in general you are right that guys tend to be a bit more blustery and argumentative. If I didn’t concede at least that, you could reply that this response was just another case in point.

Comment on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation by admin

admin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:30:36 +0000

At my last job I worked on a Management Reporting project. It took data from a data warehouse and presented aggregate numbers to management. You could argue that it made the management more aware of what was going on, more productive, whatever … and that those things, in the end, made the company more profitable. But it would be hard, or impossible, to calculate the profitability of those reports.

Another example is the project I am working on now. It is a web application that customers will use. They don’t pay for the software–they pay for a service. And it is doubtful that we would gain or lose a single customer on the basis of the software alone. It might be a factor among many in gaining or losing customers. It is something we need to have to run the business, but it is very hard to tie it directly to profitability.

Comment on Line Width by admin

admin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:17:47 +0000

You are right that my analogy breaks down pretty quickly. But I’m not talking about code being readable by a compiler. I’m talking about something that is read by another person. Lots of code needs to be maintained by someone other that the original author. When we write code, we should write not only for the compiler, but also for other developers to be able to read. So having a standard on how you align your curly braces in Java or C# is common; or the use of tabs for indentation and conventions about how lines are indented. These all to go readability of the code, but make no difference whatsoever to the compiler. Line width is another one of these in my opinion. That’s really all I was trying to say.

Comment on Line Width by amy wilson

amy wilson — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:34:52 +0000

You seem to infer that writing code is equal to writing prose. Clearly they are not. When coding, the compiler takes care of grammar and punctuation. All programming languages have an implicit syntax. Without following such a syntax you are not programming.

If we are talking about OO programming we are talking about objects as nouns, methods as verbs, and the various grammatical syntaxes of defining classes and methods. When you see a method definition you know it’s a method definition. That is tacit knowledge. I don’t see how this:

public void DoSomething(int myVariable1,
int myVariable2)

public void DoSomething(int myVariable1, int myVariable2)

The only objective items in programming are constrained by the compiler. Everything else is subjective. If you believe otherwise I’d like you to give me an example directly related to programming.

Comment on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation by amy wilson

amy wilson — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:22:50 +0000

I find that interesting. I’ve never worked in a place where software as a product or software as a service was not profitable. Can you give me an example of software that is written for a company that is not tied to profit. I am curious.