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Entries from August 2008

Grant Watson’s links for 2008-08-14

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Coding Horror: Quantity Always Trumps Quality
When it comes to software, the same rule applies. If you aren't building, you aren't learning. Rather than agonizing over whether you're building the right thing, just build it. And if that one doesn't work, keep building until you get one that does.
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Grant Watson’s links for 2008-08-05 [delicious.com]

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Coding Horror: On Our Project, We're Always 90% Done
By encouraging developers to create a detailed list of everything they need to do. And then breaking that list down into subitems. And then adding all the subitems they inevitably forgot because they didn't think that far ahead. Once you have all those items on a list, [...]

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White and Nerdy

August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

This is genius: “Weird Al” Yankovic - White & Nerdy
“…Shopping online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
I got a business doing websites
When my friends need some code who do they call?
I do HTML for them all
Even made a homepage [...]

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