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on languages, numbers, and creating time: The third half, concluded: kindness in software
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Sunday, February 24, 2013. The third half, concluded: kindness in software. In a previous post. I wrote about the realization that as of this year I'll have been programming for half my life, and wondering where I'm going to take my career from here. I left a few details for a later post: meta-thinking, and kindness in software. This post is about the latter. It's about kindness to users, as well as other developers. The value of software for people who use it.
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: The third half, continued: Meta-thinking
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Sunday, February 24, 2013. The third half, continued: Meta-thinking. In a previous post. I wrote about the realization that as of this year I'll have been programming for half my life, and wondering where I'm going to take my career from here. I left a few details for a later post: meta-thinking, and kindness in software. This post is about the former. I should also disclaim that as much as I enjoy meta-thinking, I'm not always good at it, especially when I most ...
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: ... just write *what* down?
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Monday, August 12, 2013. Just write *what* down? In a previous post about the importance of reducing documentation-related technical debt in the near term, I said Just write it down. But what's the it. If someone vaguely suggests you need to document your code better - what? How, where, when? Here are a few ways to answer that question. Explaining to yourself and others. Is precisely what you need to write down now. But 6 months from now hasn't happened yet!
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: Why I Do What I Do: or, The Third Half Of My Life
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Sunday, February 24, 2013. Why I Do What I Do: or, The Third Half Of My Life. As of this year I will have been programming for half my life. What's next for me? Do I do what I do? Do I have to offer the world and where. Do I want to take it? I say this not only with local interest. Asking myself how to be keep myself happy and support my family - - but also with global interest. Namely, what are the greater impacts of the kind of work I do? I'm not the only mid-l...
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: Threw an exception from a method that throws no exceptions -- wait, what?
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Thursday, January 17, 2013. Threw an exception from a method that throws no exceptions - wait, what? Here's a fun little false positive I ran into recently. Believes Library ( ClassBeingMocked. Throws an exception, but Library really does not. Yet Application's unit-test case passes! This takes an interplay of JUnit, Jmock, and their use of reflection. Public class MyTest { private Mockery mockery; private ClassBeingMocked mockedInstance; private ClassBeingTested...
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: January 2013
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Java 7, ulimit, and non-heap memory. A couple of co-workers of mine found the following problem:. Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap Could not create the Java virtual machine. It happened in a batch-job environment where we use. For all programs, Java or not), in addition to Java's heap specification with. And it only started happening on a test switch from Java 6 to Java 7. Bin/ba...
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: Java 7, ulimit, and non-heap memory
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Java 7, ulimit, and non-heap memory. A couple of co-workers of mine found the following problem:. Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap Could not create the Java virtual machine. It happened in a batch-job environment where we use. For all programs, Java or not), in addition to Java's heap specification with. And it only started happening on a test switch from Java 6 to Java 7. Bin/ba...
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on languages, numbers, and creating time: August 2013
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On languages, numbers, and creating time. Monday, August 12, 2013. Just write *what* down? In a previous post about the importance of reducing documentation-related technical debt in the near term, I said Just write it down. But what's the it. If someone vaguely suggests you need to document your code better - what? How, where, when? Here are a few ways to answer that question. Explaining to yourself and others. Is precisely what you need to write down now. But 6 months from now hasn't happened yet!
