I'm setting a personal goal in 2013 to learn a new programming language each month. Obviously, I won't be able to learn any of them in depth, but I plan on completing a small project in each language.
As I mentioned in 12 New Languages, I'm learning a new programming language each month in 2013. To go along with this effort, I need a dozen things worth building -- one for each language.
I'm going to try to play to the strengths of each language. Here's ...
When you're writing python, you don't need a lot of debate over the minutiæ of most coding standards. PEP 8 does that for you. Even better, there are some tools that make it really easy to stick to the standard.
Why do this? Well, for one thing it ...
(Background: 12 Projects in 2013)
I wrote a bit about the general experience of programming in Icon a couple of weeks ago. This post is a brief post-mortem about a project that I tried to build using Icon. I'm not planning on releasing the source, because I don't ...
Joel Spolsky also thinks that using timelog data for performance tracking is a bad idea.
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