So I guess I am daring, but not many software developers/programmers would publicly disparage their code like I am about to do. I was looking at some code I wrote about 3.5 years ago when I was first learning python during a summer job in the computer science department at my University and this is [...]
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 [...]
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.