<p>… I’ll just point them to <a href="http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/10/grumpy-people-get-the-details-right.html?mid=facebook_nymag">this article</a> and explain that I’m just sweating the details. If you’re a programmer, that is a lot more important than most people and most programmers would believe.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.regehr.org/archives/199">A</a> <a href="http://blog.regehr.org/archives/208">couple</a> of interesting articles about debugging. Debugging doesn’t seem to get a lot of attention when people are taught about programming, I assume you’re supposed to acquire this skill by osmosis, but it is actually one of those skills that should receive much greater attention because it’s one of those that separates highly productive developers from, well, not so…
<p>For those of us who remember when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro">BBC Micro</a> was the home computer with the fastest Basic implementation available, a long time ago, and was pretty legendary in home computing circles in Europe. It didn’t sell that much outside of the UK, mostly because of its price. It was also the target system for the original implementation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29">Elite</a>. <a…
<p>My hardware “scrap pile” contained a Dell Inspiron 530 - not the most glamorous of machines and rather out of date and old, too, but it works and it runs a few pieces of software that I don’t want to reboot my Mac for regularly. Problem was, I had to rebuild it because it had multiple OSs installed and none of them worked. Note to self - don’t mix 32 and 64 bit Windows on the same partition and expect it to work flawlessly.</p>
<p>Ah, a meta blogging post. Sorry, I try to keep these to a minimum…</p>
