After reading Jeff Attwood's post "We Are Typists First, Programmers Second" and hearing my co-workers ask me how fast I typed for the umpteenth time, I decided to take one of those typing tests and found out I average around 100 words per minute (wpm). Not bad.
The last time I took a typing test like that was 15 [...]
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Over the last few weeks I've talked with several software engineer/business types about the economy and whether or not the software industry is feeling any effects from it. The consensus seems to be that it's not (yet) but my small sample size may be skewed regionally to the Central Florida area.
For the most part and [...]
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My notes from the SD Best Practices Conference aren't written in prose or anything, but they're still handy so I thought I'd post my notes taken during the keynote given by Joel Spolsky entitled 'Building Better Software". Enjoy:
There’s a big difference between #1 and #2. Compare David Beckham vs. Landon Donovan; Hey Jude (#1 hit 1968) vs. [...]
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There was a Day Four that I attended at the SD Best Practices Conference, even though I'm posting this a week later. As mentioned in the previous post, I wasn't entirely sure which sessions I would be attending that day, but these are the ones that made the cut:
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