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What I'm Reading Right Now
Confession: I'm a hoarder of information, a would-be reader whose reach exceeds his grasp. Here's a rundown of the things I'm holding open with browser tabs, fingers and elbows...at this very moment.
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More Monkey Business
Continuing our safari, we return to looking at code monkeys, this time evaluating (in plain English) two simple implementations of "Monkey See, Monkey Do" in the Ruby and Python programming languages.
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Monkey See, Monkey Do
How lucid is your favorite programming language, really? If you read it like English, would it be poetry? Would it be comprehensible? In this republished post from '08, we explore a few popular programming languages and see how they stack up, not for processors, but for primates...
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MVP: The New Look
This blog has a new look, a new engine and a new workflow.
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Some Thoughts About TDD and TAD
Commenter Shmoo asserts that in my article TDD is Dead; Long live TDD all my arguments were not really supporting TDD so much as unit testing. And as such, I was building a case which equally supports a Test-After Development workflow…
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Agile vs Waterfall
I have come to dislike “agile vs waterfall” discussions. “Agile vs waterfall” is a false dipole which leads to confusion about agile. The term “waterfall” is simply a description of a problematic, default approach to developing software.
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Google+ Will Win Because I'm Already Tired of It
Ok, so this is not a really scientific barometer for the viability of Google+ (we always need more barometers), but try this one on for size: I’ve been using Google+ for three weeks now, and I’m feeling a bit burned out.
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On Writing Well
As I writer, I find I do my best writing in a rush. I believe this is because, due to my training, I have very little time to write inspiring things before Common Sense reasserts itself, and my Training kicks in. The ole ego steps up, takes command, and thinks about wretched things like approachability and marketability and other "abilities". All these "abilities" impair my capacity for joy, which is the only thing I really care about writing in the first place.
