Introduction (or, what is it all about?) I’ve been trying to figure out a good solution for the project management needs I’m facing. There are literally hundreds of tools intended to help developers make better software, and dozens of methods and philosophies (where only a few really prevail in the mainstream). My team leans agile, [...]
I’m packaging up some work I did for a client in a set of SharePoint features, and some of the features include list instances. In this case, I needed to package up a list instance into feature xml so it could be deployed from the administrative web interface, but I didn’t have the list data [...]
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (Stackoverflow.com, November 2008), a university junior posted this question: Most jobs speak of C#, Visual C++, .NET, Java, etc etc Where as I am mainly using Java, C++, Perl, Python and programming to the standard Unix standards, would I be better off ditching Linux and [...]
I’ve got a full-time job with benefits, and it’s a blessing to me and my family because it allows me to provide for them in full. We want for nothing, really. However, I do someday want to start my own business. I have some ideas, but it will take time and even if I bootstrap [...]
I’ve been trying to write a web application in my free time. It’s been going on at varying degrees of intensity for months now, and I’ve got virtually nothing to show for it. Part of that is due to a lack of time to devote to it; at best, I can add 2 hours to [...]
By training and experience, I’m largely an object-oriented programmer. I was a freshman comp. sci. student when the Java wave hit my university, so that’s what I was fed. I didn’t learn anything else but Java until the summer after my sophomore year; then, I was involved in a summer research program for which I [...]
Can I just rant at you for a minute, gentle reader? The editor in Visual Studio is from the stone ages. Really – it’s retarded (I don’t mean that in a derogatory sense – it really is retarded). Sure, it does syntax highlighting, but really….so do the little code-paste tools like pastebin, and those little [...]
I use CScope to navigate source code from within Emacs. It’s very, very useful and integrates will into Emacs. However, I’ve been wanting a way to control how cscope updates the buffer/window mappings as it locates search results for you. Sometimes, I like that CScope updates the buffer where I initiated the search to reflect [...]
Over at LispCast, eric’s got a new post up called No easy download. In it he talks about the difficulty of being new to Lisp, wanting to learn, and not knowing where to start. He’s right. It’s way too hard – and I’d argue it’s one of the primary factors that hampers Lisp adoption. As [...]
I wish I could say I came up with the below, and I suppose I did, but I more or less gathered two or three techniques I didn’t come up with into a few lines to code to make a macro useful for debugging. Its primary merits are readable output and extreme ease of use. [...]