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Month: December 2007

  • SVN

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    I’m on a multi-year long-term project, I came on in just in the last year, and I and a colleague have done some serious improvement from what was a less-than auspicious starting point, starting (this is where my involvement came in) firstly with getting the whole mess into SVN. This has been helpful in numerous…

  • The Pragmatic Programmer

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    I’m about 3/4 of the way through this. I’d heard a lot of it from other people so there’s not a lot that’s stunningly new, but it’s a good introduction to a lot of better principles. In particular, I’d heard about the DRY principle, but it was good to actually read about it. Some of…

  • Introduction

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    ajepst
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    I am currently a somewhat beginner-level developer, primarily doing .net. My definition of beginner is perhaps not what most would consider a beginner-level: I have been in the web business for a good 10 years or so cutting my teeth on perl and server-side javascript, a bit of ancient pre-5 ColdFusion, and some Solaris administration,…