Monthly Archives: March 2010

Studying the discipline of “shipping”

Posted on 2010-03-22 by Ben Atkin

Right now I’m studying the discipline of shipping, in several different ways: I read Linchpin and listened to the audiobook twice. I’m reading Ship It!, one of the early Pragmatic Programmer books. I watched Giles Bowkett’s Awesome Movie twice. I’m … Continue reading →

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Screencasts and practice breaks

Posted on 2010-03-21 by Ben Atkin

I’ve seen more than one screencast where the narrator has invited me, the viewer, to pause the screencast to try going through the steps myself. Usually, the invitation is accompanied with the author saying that I’ll learn more if I … Continue reading →

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A plan for twitter

Posted on 2010-03-20 by Ben Atkin

Limit your number of tweets per day to a certain number. Use them wisely. If you get close to the limit, start saving tweets for future days. If you want to say more online, find interesting blog posts and leave … Continue reading →

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Incanter and Aquamacs on Mac OS X with Leiningen and aquamacs-emacs-starter-kit

Posted on 2010-03-20 by Ben Atkin

I’ve known of Incanter, a powerful statistics library for Clojure, for a while now. A couple of days ago I set out to get it running nicely, and was successful. Here are the steps I took: Installing Leiningen I used … Continue reading →

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Organizing github repos

Posted on 2010-03-19 by Ben Atkin

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. – Phil Carlton I find that I spend an awful lot of time naming things. More than that, it’s a distraction. I also spend a lot … Continue reading →

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