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What makes a good programmer? It’s an interesting question to ask yourself. It makes you reflect on the craft of software development. It is also a good question to ask your colleagues. It can trigger some interesting discussions on how you work together. Here are five skills I think are crucial to have in order to be a good programmer. "Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency"
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I thought What made a good second baseman.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Gin. Lots and lots of gin.
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Take a bad programmer and apply heat.
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dotnetConf is a free, online conference for helping developers create desktop, mobile, web, and cloud-based applications using the .NET Framework. For those (like me), that missed this two day conference (all the videos)
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"Just wait for it, I can't give a timetable, I can't even tell you what is it, but something's going to happen in the Windows Phone space that's going to upset the entire world across everything." They're switching to iOS?
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That would be amazing.
TTFN - Kent
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Somebody will give a damn?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Well - I'm currently trying to buy one. I wonder how they knew?
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Today, I am happy to announce that we are taking another great step for F# open source, by enabling open source contributions to the Visual F# IDE Tools that ship as part of Visual Studio. So, when does it get so open they just cut it loose?
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In a report from CRI, it's stated that part of the Chinese central government and subordinate departments are banning the use of Microsoft Office. The reason is the same as the ban of Windows 8: Chinese officials allegedly believe it contains spyware for the U.S. government. Maybe they just really don't like PowerPoint?
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China can go... Wait, that's not kid sister safe, nevermind.
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'sok, it's not The Lounge
I'm reminded that Ballmer once said that 90% of all Microsoft software in China is pirated anyway, so not a huge market lost.
TTFN - Kent
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Every office after 2003 is unnecessary and obnoxious and should be banned everywhere.
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Nope. They already made all the copies they need.
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Google's longest-lived social project yet will shutter in the fall. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
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It’s important for web experiences to work great on mobile devices. The latest release of the Dart includes a development version of Dartium – Chrome with the Dart Runtime – which runs on Android devices. That was fast. Didn't 1.4 come out recently (oh, a month ago)
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This one actually seems more significant. A few of Dart's incremental releases have seemed pretty insignificant, but I guess that'll happen when you're churning 'em out at this pace.
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It's turning enterprise IT on its head. It promises vast cost savings, shorter time to market, and continuous technology improvement. And it can't be stopped -- at least not for long. and you know the rest of that (Don't make me get Sir Ian down here!)
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Aren't these people sick of their own voices yet with this garbage?
No REALLY this time. It's going to change EVERYTHING.
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One ring to rule them all? If I remember well it doesn't went good for the last one who tried it...
But, really! There is no such thing 'one' - a problem brings its solution, a solution brings its tools.
NoSQL is a great addition to our toolkit, but it isn't a Swiss knife!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The LOTR analogy wasn't even clever. I'm not going to say InfoWorld can do better, because they really can't, but this article and its lack of tact or insight just makes me sad.
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With Xamarin 3 we made F# a first class citizen. You can now use Xamarin Studio to build amazing Android and iOS apps in your favorite functional language. For the last month, the world has lifted the stigma of trying to be functional in an object oriented world.
Today, we are excited to announce “Run an F# app, get an F# shirt!” Download the F#-ified Xamarin Store app, run it, and an F# shirt will be on its way to you! The good folk at Xamarin think you need to get dressed now
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The good folk at Xamarin think you need to get dressed now
I already dress F-in sharp.
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