(Apologies to Stephen R Covey for the title...)
Through some odd coincidence these posts crossed my path recently:
What I got to ...
It's an amazing thing when your development tools work together.
In the bad old days, we thought it was cool when the editor could work in concert with source control. It blew my mind when we first had source control with integrated bug tracking. (Wow, you can see the ...
(I started this post about halfway through the Year of New Programming Languages, and wrapped it up in December.)
At the midway point I was most excited by Common Lisp, but with doubts I'd be using it for anything real. By the end of the year my favorite new ...
In "Talent is Overrated", Geoff Colvin at one point discusses how superstars in many fields use the memory technique of "chunking" to boost their short term memory.
His simple example is the 13-letter word "lexicographer". To you and I (assuming you speak English and have a decent vocabulary), it is ...
In a project I'm working on, I wanted to copy a fat jar to a remote machine for testing.
The sbt-assembly plugin is handy for making a fat jar, but I didn't find any convenient plugins for just copying the jar somewhere. (SBT's built-in publish mechanism is ...