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Subversion Using Experiences

If you like PuTTY, you should know who Simon Tatham is. He wrote a great article about his experience with Subversion. I think it is worth to read if you are thinking to switch from CVS to Subversion. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/svn.html

Programmer: Programming, Googling, Copy and Paste?

In my life, I knew a guy. He is the system administrator of my CS department When I was in the college. I worked for him as an assistant. He likes to write any programs for any tasks if he thinks the computer can help in terms of saving time. He wrote a lot of tools for network/system admin, web applications and system backup. When he is coding, I never see he refers to a programing book or Internet. He just opens a terminal and uses vi to start a project from the scratch. I have to admire his programming ability. I always dream I can program like him… Just read this article and have a question – what a good programmer should be?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html

Is your hard drive reliable?

How reliable you hard drive it is? Do you have a backup strategy for your valuable data? Don’t rely on those hard drives. I lost my data once and it makes me always alert on the hard drive. Please read this paper - http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Code Monkey

Jonathan Coulton:
“
Code Monkey get up get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob
Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent
But his output stink
His code not “functional” or “elegant”
What do Code Monkey think?
Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself
Code Monkey not say it out loud
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud
“

Here is the whole lyrics http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Code%20Monkey

Here is the funny video on yourtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA

What’s your resolution as a programmer?

Here’s a special presentation from the Wired Blogs team: our list of New Year’s resolutions. Feel free to apply these to your daily life whether you’re a coder or not. And now, our plans for the future…Read at http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/new_years_resol.html

Nobody uses Java anymore?

Steve Jobs on iPhone: No Java For You …:

Jobs reportedly said “Java’s not worth building in [to the phone]. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”

Which Layer you should blame?

When the performance of an Java web application is getting slow, people first would complain Java. It seems Java is the bad guy to cause the slow performance on everything. Java is good or Java is poor? Absolutely Java itself is the victim to be blamed. But what is it going on? Please read “It’s Not The Database, Stupid” at http://codist.biit.com/fiche/thecodist/article/wtf-it-stories-1-its-not-the-database-stupid

Setting up SSH keys for access without a password

Sometimes you need to log in a remote host without being asked the password. Particularly when you need programming access to a remote host to perform tasks. The following links give you the best practice how you can set up SSH keys in order to do so.

•   http://kimmo.suominen.com/docs/ssh/#ssh-keygen
•   http://bashcurescancer.com/setting_up_ssh_keys_for_access_without_password.html

Why Your Code Sucks

Ask yourself  with those questions:

• If your code doesn’t work
• If your code isn’t testable
• If your code  is hard to read
• if your code is not understandable
• If you blindly adopt a heavy framework just because it’s the current bandwagon
• If your code has duplication

Why Your Code Sucks: