Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. Click here and check out the original at their site. There are a number of authors worth checking out that write for them. Have you ever found yourself running your code to test out some behavior when you noticed something unrelated and thought, “that’s odd?”…
Don’t look now, but I’m pretty sure this makes three weeks in a row of doing at least 1 reader question per week. Today, I’m going to tackle a question I received: is programming art? Here is the actual text of the question. It’s a well-written consideration that cites two parallels: painting and writing. This…
If you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been gone for the last couple of weeks. I got married and went on a honeymoon and left the blog on auto-pilot, with scheduled cross posts of things I’d written for other blogs. I figured this was better than providing no content and hopefully the posts and social media announcements…
When I was a kid, I spent a bunch of years doing karate. As best I can recall, there were three main types of activities around which we’d focus: kihon, kata, and kumite. I listed these roughly in order of sophistication. Kihon translates to something like “basics” and it involved executing the same punches, blocks,…
I remember most the tiredness that would come and stick around through the next day. After late nights where the effort had been successful, the tiredness was kind of a companion that had accompanied me through battle. After late nights of futility, it was a taunting adversary that wouldn’t go away. But whatever came, there…
