Personal Blog
This user hasn't shared any profile information
Posts by
Coding standards are critical
51495 days
Odds are, if term coding standards is new to you, you are wasting time on a daily basis arguing over the syntax semantics of your programming language. (e.g. tabs or spaces? 4 spaces or 2? print or echo? etc.)
Programmers are required to make hundreds to thousands of micro-decisions like this every day, and especially when there is no standard, this costs time and time is money. If you were to benchmark the programmer’s brain, you could begin to see exactly just how much time is wasted asking, answering, remembering, and changing each answer.
This form of unorganization has many more side effects than one, however.
College Scholarship for U.S. WordPress Themers
01658 days
by
in Design
WOW! You know WordPress is mainstream when you start seeing college scholarships for anyone who can design a good theme. I know a bunch of kids who design for WP at $50/ea. Why design for free/cheap when you can get paid for it like this? Go sign up.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
21677 days
by
in Politics
definition: An RFID tag is an object that can be stuck on or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radiowaves. The RFID tag can automatically be read from several meters away and does not have to be in the line of sight of the reader. (more…)
Hand Exercises to Increase Your WPM
92039 days
by
in Personal
I don’t know how many other people can type 120 wpm; I imagine there are a lot, but I just haven’t ever met any. As a programmer and a guitarist, being able to work quickly and efficiently with my hands is important to me. That’s why these videos demonstrating actual hand exercises are pretty cool.
Besides strengthing the hand, improving dexterity, coordination, and preventing carpel tunnel syndrome, these double as great party tricks. Check it out!
Learn Ruby on Rails on Windows!
7If you are interested in learning Ruby on a Windows machine I recommend spending a weekend to read the free online book Programming Ruby and downloading InstantRails and RadRails to begin testing the Ruby code snippets it will show you.
After that, I recommend Agile Web Developent with Rails by the-one-and-only David Heinemeier Hansson.
For support while learning hop on freenode.net and join #ruby-lang and #rubyonrails. The crowd is very enthusiastic and willing to answer your questions.