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Douglas Adams on teaching programming

Mon, 16 May 2016 23:12:35 -0400

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn’t that true?
Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

Return of the Bad Error Message

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 04:43:50 -0400

Yes, it will? What do I click?

Source: Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 installer

Uncle Bob quote on Work Ethic

Sun, 16 Aug 2015 04:18:52 -0400

You should plan on working 60 hours per week. The first 40 are for your employer. The remaining 20 are for you. During this remaining 20 hours you should be reading, practicing, learning, and otherwise enhancing your career.
Robert Martin in

Clean Code
I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck

The answer to every programming question ever asked

Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:31:40 -0400

What is the proper answer to every programming question ever asked? Easy:

It depends.

Podcasts you should listen to right now

Wed, 06 May 2015 01:50:59 -0400

This Developer’s Life – Podcast in the style of This American Life dealing with programming related topics. An all time favorite of mine.
Hanselminutes – Scott Hanselman talks about web development, usually dealing with C#, javascript, ASP.NET, and other MS technologies.
Herding Code – K Scott Allen, John Galloway, and others talk about programming topics.
Programming Throwdown – The hosts pick a random technology and give you a broad overview of it followed by its advantages and disadvantages.
Javascript Jabber – The JavaScript frameworks that are released approximately 20 minutes are discussed here.
Developer Tea – Podcast covering a diverse amount of topics relating to being a developer.
Iterate – UX, design, and related ideas are discussed in this podcast.
Debug – Mobile development is discussed in depth, mostly on iPlatforms.
/dev/hell – Uncensored ramblings of two insane developers.

Hall of Fame – My favorite non-programming podcasts Link to heading

99% Invisible – The best podcast ever? Short, well produced episodes dealing with design.
TED Radio Hour – TED Talks are a must.
Radiolab – The best production of any podcast ever made. Interesting and seemingly random discussions.
This American Life – I think this has been cited as the most popular podcast ever until Serial came along… which was also created by them.
Reply All – Random things relating to the internet are discussed. Gimlet Media is worth paying attention to as every podcast they release is solid gold.
Startup – A podcast documenting company creation from brainstorming, soliciting investors, creating a startup, running it, and more. Interesting look at something not normally public.
Freakonomics – Economists can be interesting too.
You Are Not So Smart – Self delusion… and cookies?

Philosophy as told through bad error messages

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:28:51 -0400

Who debugs the debugger? Link to heading

Who troubleshoots the troubleshooter? Link to heading

Who delivers the text message which does not exist? Link to heading

Windows – Deleting files and folders with a long filenames (256+ characters)

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:50:40 -0400

So I was using a 3rd party iPod management program to copy songs from my iPod back to my hard drive and the program somehow made a folder with a name that was absurdly long. So long that even windows refused to delete it no matter what. The exact error says: “The filename or extension is too long”. The official MS documentation gives 5 suggestions and none of them seemed to work for me. Here is what I did to fix the problem.