Archive for 2007/5
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Down With Rockstar Programmers
-- May 31, 2007, 12:06 p.m.
I read a great post today by Ron Evans titled, I Would Rather Be A Jazz Programmer. I've gotta say I find the idea of programming jam sessions very appealing. I'll play the proverbial bass -- not the focus of attention but supplying a good stable infrastructure upon which something appealing can be built. The drums provide the timelines I'm ...
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Using Mercurial to Work Around Centralized SCM Limitations
-- May 14, 2007, 10:01 p.m.
I'm frustrated every time I encounter a project I want to/have to work on that uses centralized revision control. I'm not trying to repeat my Centralized Revision Control is Stupid post. Instead, I'm going to describe how mercurial solves these problems for me. The short answer is mercurial queues. Continue reading to find out how it helps me in environments ...
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Fast and Easy Token Classification in C
-- May 9, 2007, 10:24 p.m.
Occasionally when writing a C program you need to write a function that will take a string and match it against a known set and return a value for that string. The easy way to do that is with a bunch of if/else statements. That's not so difficult to maintain, but it's a fairly poor algorithm. As an example, consider ...