LinkLog: Getting Better at Getting Better
Posted onFrom How to be an expert In theory, again, anyone willing to do what’s required to keep getting better WILL get better.
Tag: Improvement
Programmer’s Notebook
Posted onIn mid 90s I read an article about keeping a programmer’s journal. I don’t know where the article went, but recall sharing it with a couple of my friends. I knew it had something to do with the original wiki. I finally found it. It was an entry in one of my 2001 posts in […]
Golden Rule of Documenting Software Design
Posted onIn the Next Programming Skill You Should Learn, Scott Hackett talks about the ability to communicate well, especially in writing. I totally agree. The post is certainly worth a read. An unexpected bonus in this post is Scott’s tips on the golden rule of documenting software design. The golden rule of documenting software design Try […]
Math: Developing a Mindset
Posted onYou keep hearing about Mathematical thinking. What is it? How do you develop a Mindset for Math? Khalid has a nice post on How to Develop the Math Mindset. Math uses made-up rules to create models and derive relationships. When learning, I ask: What relationship does this model represent? What real-world items share this relationship? […]
Simple Innovations: No Printer? No Problem!
Posted onI got this email as a Rapid Rewards member from Southwest Airlines today. It made me happy. If you do not use Southwest, some background is in order. There are no seat assignments in Southwest Airlines. You take seats on a first-come-first served, basis. I felt that it was like a bus and never liked […]
Vigorous Writing is Concise
Posted onVigorous Writing is Concise I borrowed this phrase from Jon Bentley, who in turn was quoting William Strunk Jr.’s observation in Elements of Style. Jon says that this is true in both English and Programming. In this chapter titled The Most Beautiful Code I never wrote, from the book Beautiful Code, Jon shows how you […]
Little Innovations: Math Lab in Your Cell Phone
Posted onFrom ZDNet’s Emerging Technology Trends Israeli scientists have decided to put a math lab in your pocket. They developed a library of math modules which can be installed on almost cell phones available today. So you’ll be able to see graphs or solve equations on your phone while on a train or a bus ride. […]
Link As a Unit of Data
Posted onFrom Danny’s Evolving the Link: Critics also pointed to the limitations of links that pointed in only one direction and were untyped. The Web’s success has to a large extent overridden these criticisms without really proving them wrong. Ironically, it now seems that many of the early criticisms weren’t exactly incorrect per se, but merely […]
Three Steps to Efficieny
Posted onI was watching the video of Seven Habits of Highly Effective Text Editing. I am sucker for anything titled Seven Habits. I use Vim (Vi improved). Vi was the first editor I started with on Unix and since there were DOS versions available, kept using it. So when I saw a session on Vim on […]
Joel “Software – A Game of Inches”
Posted onFrom Joel’s Game of Inches Commercial software—the kind you sell to other people—is a game of inches. Every day you make a tiny bit of progress. You make one thing just a smidgen better. You make the alarm clock default to 7:00am instead of 12:00 midnight. A tiny improvement that will barely benefit anyone. One […]