Things are shaping up rather well, most of the functionality is already implemented, I can query, modify and create, tickets. There are quite a few outstanding features to add, and quite a few annoying bugs to squash, soon there should be a alpha release. How soon? now that’s the question.
Category Archives: programming
Update on emacs+trac interface
01-Oct-08Design as the silver bullet (my take)
12-Jun-08While I agree with most of what Elvis say. There is a need to look deeper, there are open ends:
1.) How do you determine individuals are “qualified and prepared”?
2.) Assuming you can consistently solve point 1, if the individual does not care, is not motivated, then all preparedness and qualifications, and even professionalism wont help.
3.) [...]
C do’s and don’ts (mostly don’ts)
28-Apr-08This past Friday, I received a surprising email, from a former co-worker, it’s been a year or more since I left that particular company (wont name, names). We were in different departments, but were by fate put on the same project.
This particular project was (is) of the utmost importance for that company, and in his [...]
Long day! Been up for 46 hours don’t ask, not pretty, and I’m very pissed off! So what’s all this about, I was writing some code, that was proclaimed finished three weeks ago, to find out that, well, it needs to be ported to a new hardware, and the demo is today (I was told [...]
Busy with work.
27-Jul-07It’s been a bit since I blogged. I’ve been busy with work. I’m working on a non-deterministic algorithm, that will be used for random data generation that serve as seeds for a more complex algorithm that generates serial keys.* I know the above is very ambiguous but that’s all I’m allowed to say. It’s [...]
good programmer, bad programmer.
06-Jul-07A friend of my wife came up to me yesterday, he’s studying to become a Systems Engineer, and he wanted to know: What did I do to become a good programmer?
My answer: Who said I was a good programmer?
To be honest, I’m not sure if I am a good or bad programmer, and I never [...]
Programmer vs. Developer
27-Jun-07For years I have ignored the programmer vs. developer problem. For those of you that don’t know of this problem it’s quite simple: There is a trend in some IT circles to regard programmers as second class citizens, as code cowboys that are trigger happy, and are just good for writing code.
Right now if you [...]
Weblogger
23-Jun-07In my quest for being more efficient, I’ve been playing around with Weblogger.
I know most of you are not interested in Emacs, but just in case someone
besides me uses Emacs as it’s default editor, this might be helpful or just plain cool.
The art of programming
21-Jun-07There has been a lot said about code being art, and there are quite a few different reasons for this, but I won’t go into them here. There is truth, in that code is art, the problem is that in most cases, programmers misunderstand the term art, and believe that art is [...]
Source code management craziness
08-Jun-07What the hell is going on? I am totally for competition, variety and completeness, but the surge of source code management tools is getting out of hand!
Git: According to Linus and some kernel developers, it’s IT. There is nothing better, oh and SVN and CVS suck and you are either a sucker or a moron [...]