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Tips for Socializing With Friends During College
The shift from high school to college is a pivotal time in a young adult's life, complete with new responsibilities and the exciting opportunity to forge new relationships. Navigating social life in college can be daunting for many, but with the right tips, it's entirely possible to create a fulfilling social experience while still maintaining academic focus. From joining interest-based campus clubs to managing a healthy balance between studies and socializing, there are several strategies to en...
SOCIAL NETWORK,COLLEGE 2024-04-16 06:40:55
Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes?
Look, everyone makes mistakes. It’s true. But not all of us have the chance to make mistakes that end up costing millions of dollars in hardware and production support costs. Any one of the following five mistakes listed below will add additional costs to your company. It’s guaranteed. The costs could be hardware related (extra disk space, network bandwidth), which tend to add up quickly. The costs are also support related (bad performance, database re-design, report cre...
Database design,Mistake,Advice,Data type,Compatibility 2012-01-03 11:25:13
Automate Everything
Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (or hope) that this behaviour is inherent in being human. But being able to hack together scripts simply makes it much easier to go from a state of rage to a basic solution in a very small amount of time. As a side point, this is one of the reasons that teaching the basics of programming in schools is so important. It’s hard to think of any j...
Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?
Yes, even if you can't believe it, there are a lot fans of the 30-years-old vi editor (or its more recent, just-15-years-old, best clone & great improvement, vim). No, they are not dinosaurs who don't want to catch up with the times - the community of vi users just keeps growing: myself, I only got started 2 years ago (after over 10 years of being a professional programmer). Friends of mine are converting today. Heck, most vi users were not even born when...
Code reviews in the 21st Century
There's an old adage that goes something like: 'Do not talk about religion or politics'. Why? Because these subjects are full of strong opinions but are thin on objective answers. One person's certainty is another person's skepticism; someone else's common sense just appears as an a prior bias to those who see matters differently. Sadly, conversing these controversial subjects can generate more heat than light. All too often people can get s...
Code review,21 Centuary 2012-02-10 06:39:14
Why I switched from Ruby back to C++
After two months of Sol Trader development in Ruby, I took a difficult decision last Wednesday morning: I’ve decided to rewrite the game code from scratch in C++. Let me explain my reasons. If you'd like to receive announcements about Sol Trader or be part of the beta program, sign up at soltrader.net. Why I did it Slow frames: When working with Ruby, I use the excellent Gosu library to do all my game specific coding. This initially worked great, but occasionally I’d just...
How to Think Creatively
I grew up hungry to do something creative, to set myself apart. I also believed creativity was magical and genetically encoded. As early as the age of 8, I began sampling the arts, one after another, to see if I'd inherited some gift.Eventually, I became a journalist. For many years, I told other people's stories. I was successful, but I rarely felt truly creative.The first hint I might have sold myself short came in the mid-1990s. In the course of writing a book called What Really Matters, Sear...
Creative thinking,Saturation,Incubation,Illumination,Verification 2011-11-14 08:39:11
Coder or Clown?
That’s the challenge. Sit down with someone you’ve never met and try to work out if they are a coder or a clown. I don’t mean to insult anyone, of course, and I’m the first to acknowledge the years of training and effort that goes into being a professional clown. But some coders, oh boy. Like the time I interviewed a recent graduate. I’ll call her Ada. Full of sympathy for the novice programmer I started with a gentle warm-up, a soft-ball question to break the ...
Helping people find good Perl tutorials
If a co-worker comes to you and asks you: "I would like to learn Perl, where can I find a good Perl Tutorial?", I am sure your would have a few recommendations. If the same person did not know you she would have to type some search term in Google and hope she found the right learning material.Recently Christian Walde (Mithaldu) asked "How do newbies find Perl learning materials online?". Dave Cross responded by checking the top results when searching for "perl tutorial".It shows that many p...
Perl,Perl tutorial,Resource,Website 2011-11-03 13:34:33
Cracks in the Foundation
PHP has been around for a long time, and it’s starting to show its age. From top to bottom, the language has creaky joints. I’ve decided to take a look at how things got to this point, and what can be (and is being) done about it. I start out pretty gloomy, but bear with me; I promise it gets better. In the Beginning, There Was Apache and CGI And there was much rejoicing. In 1994, Rasmus Lerdorf created the “Personal Home Page Tools,†a set of CGI binaries wri...
PHP,History,Foundation design,Compatibility 2011-12-18 01:03:54
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