I know this might be a shocker, but I love python! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t discriminate against languages. I will use whatever language I feel is best for the job at hand, I have been known to use Java, C, C++, C#, Bash scripting, python and even VB.NET(..shhh don’t tell anyone). Programming [...]
On hacker news for the last couple of days an essay by Paul Graham has been on the front page, its called Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule.
Paul put into words something I have known for a long time, generally software developers(I use myself and people I know as examples) when interrupted tend to take longer [...]
In my last post I mentioned I am working on a code snippet repository for storing and sharing code snippets. In the comments Jason Gedge(a very smart man I might add) mentioned that I should probably store code snippets as XML and then use XSL/XSLT to do the markup for the syntax highlighting. This is [...]
I saw this post on hacker news today and later on Josh suggested I read it as well. Its a pretty great description of a persons evolution as a programmer and I think everyone who programs or is a software developer can certainly relate to many of the things described in his story. Check it [...]
I have been trying out Django a little bit the last few days and I am loving it. I will attribute that in no small part to my love of python, however, getting a test project going with Django was a breeze, using the Models to set up the database and its relations was easy [...]
So I have really been pushing to get some posts going here, but it seems like every time I have the opportunity to get something going something else comes up. I have 2 posts now in the pipe, just need to be edited and then they are good to go. That being said, I messed [...]
So after a long hiatus, mikegrouchy.com is back. I lost all the archives for the old blog through an unfortunate computer incident(formatted my backups! woops!), so comes the unique opportunity for a new beginning, a blank slate if you will.
Lately I have read a bunch of articles around the internet talking about why one language is better than another, why C programmers are better than Java programmers, why ruby is better than python, etc. Honestly I think its all irrelevant, just like its irrelevant whether your program your latest greatest application in vi, emacs, [...]
I tend to read some blogs on my breaks at work, and I was reading an article on Coding Horror that went over some of the basics of Big Oh , and I kind of though about how at work, no one talks about complexity, the closest we get is someone talking about how many [...]