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On Being a Senior Engineer
An excellent, insightful, and interesting read about, among other things, engineering maturity. The whole thing can be summed up with the quote at the end of the article:
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets credit.”
but the article is full of a rich texture and depth of exploration of that simple phrase as applied to ( Read more... ) -
Mountain Lion and homebrew vim: “ImportError: No module named site”
If you use homebrew’s macvim recipe, Mountain Lion, and any of the vim plugins that use the python support (such as the excellent Gundo, which provides a handy navigable graph of your vim undo history for a buffer), you should remove and reinstall macvim:
brew rm macvim brew install macvim
The upgrade to Mountain Lion changed the system Python ( Read more... ) -
Apache, PHP, MySQL, .dev on OS X Lion (with a minimum of pain)
Scenario: You’re a PHP developer. (Hey, someone has to write the good PHP code.) You use a mac (and, let’s assume, you’re on Lion). You want to have a lot of sites running locally, with minimum effort. Sure, you could use MAMP, but that’s a chunk of manual configuration every time you want to create a new domain. It’s not much, but it adds up!
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Shadowing variables in CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is a meta-language which compiles directly into JavaScript, has some neat features and patterns baked in, and is a favorite of many JavaScript hackers, and I’ve been playing around with it in the last few days.
For the most part, I like it, but it steps on one of the most useful features of JavaScript - the var keyword for scope ( Read more... ) -
Compiling Ruby with Xcode 4.3
Ever since Xcode 4.2, which removed gcc in favor of clang, ruby 1.8 (and some versions of 1.9, and many gems with native code) wouldn’t compile or wouldn’t work correctly when compiled. There was a workaround, in the form of the osx-gcc-installer. It was a little bit hacky - but the work and the author, Kenneth Reitz, were basically responsible ( Read more... ) -
Lunch - March 6th, 2012
Smoked salmon and potato cakes, brie and roasted garlic, beet salad, cinnamon apple yogurt. Too delicious. (No, really. I ate too much.) My wife is a wonderful cook.
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Original post at Wizard Mode.
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Git Flow: it’s child’s play
At work, we’re moving over to use Git Flow. (A moment of background: Git is a “version control system”, a way of keeping a history of all the changes you’ve made to a file or files, in much the same way as one might have “important_spreadsheet_20120103.xls”, “important_spreadsheet_20120104.xls”, “important_spreadsheet_original.xls”, and so forth - ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year! Make some mistakes.
I’m not the first person by a long shot to say that the “good enough” is the enemy of the “at all”. I’m probably not the last to get around to believing it, either. One of these days, I probably will remember it.
I’m a perfectionist. I hate doing things wrong, or doing things poorly. This is a common flaw among computer folk, at least, and it leads ( Read more... ) -
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Merry Christmas. Hug your loved ones extra tight.
