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# Links for 2008-07-05
- Signs that you are a bad programmer (Bad Programmers) ✴
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# Links for 2008-06-18
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# Nervous
You know those scenes in the Zeddier-grade of movie and dubbed anime, the scene when the party has just entered the house/castle and right before the horrible, screeching sound of the door closing like a Doom Bell ringing out peals of..well…doom; right before that someone says “It’s quiet…almost too quiet”. You always knew that within a couple of scenes that tempter-of-fate — who was probably sauntering, you just know it — will be a corpse hanging from some variety of branch/ceiling frame/yard-arm. I do. I would even if it wasn’t the fact that I saw some of those scenes at such point in the development of my juvenile brain that I see those scenes whenever I close my eyes. No wonder my bastard of a mind is so against me, it’s karma for what I did to it. I still see that hand dangling from Max’s car when I try to sleep.
It is those scenes that I recall with no small trepidation when I finish a chunk of work that just seemed to work as I stream of consciousness’d it down into the IDE i. I arrived at work today and the one bit of functionality that almost no-one uses was causing locks all over the goddamn database. When I say “almost no-one”, I of course mean “everyone whose opinion is vital i.e. the exec team”.
I rewrote the bit that turns an arbitrary set of user-selected search criteria and output fields into SQL; the original code was written by me, than rewritten by someone else after I left the project, than rewritten by me again when I came back so that it wouldn’t cause syntax errors on every single query. Now it is being rewritten again so that the SQL doesn’t, in a word, suck. But it just seemed to work too quickly, I had expected to take two or three days to get it to work the way I wanted. I am nervous.
Who is that yonder, laughing at me like I was the brunt of some hilarity?
i Speaking of which, good luck with NaNoWriMo those doing it. Not I. As those subscribed to my feed can attest, I have enough trouble doing a few hundred words into a blog on a daily basis.
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# Links for 2007-05-01
- Hackety Hack: the Coder’s Starter Kit ✴
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# Links for 2006-02-14
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# Links for 2005-11-29
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# Links for 2004-12-20
- Tutorial in Rails ✴
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# Links for 2004-12-03
