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Links for November 10th

demianturner — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:02:44 +0000

Chicken Spam

demianturner — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:04:08 +0000

I got some quite good quality chicken spam this morning, a first – it makes for something of an entertaining read!

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Programming Jargon Gems

demianturner — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:31:13 +0000

Stackoverflow has a great list of terms programmers have come up with where the standard jargon just didn’t cut it. A few gems in here, see if you can guess what the following might be:

Yoda conditions – arrg, right up there with with leaving off the ?> in PHP, “training wheels best practices” …
shrug report – I get this on a daily basis
Egyptian brackets
Refuctoring – one word speaks volumes
Stringly typed – one of my favs – check out Yii framework if you’re unfamiliar with the concept
Heisenbug – an old and painful classic, I get them all the time
Fear Driven Development – I think we’ve all been there
Baklava code – this one is just begging to enter your vocabulary

Humour advice from Microsoft – surprisingly good

demianturner — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:01:03 +0000