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Friday, June 27, 2008 9:14 PM

Why I Like My Job

Recently I've been reflecting on my life's choices. Just a reflective kind of mood, I guess. I chose to become a programmer when I was 18 years old. That was 6.5 years ago, and a pretty young age to make life-changing choices - at least in my country. That choice pretty much set the course for me for the next 9 years, as I was going to study in the university for 3 years and then work in the same place for the following 6 years. That's a lot of burden on 18-year old shoulders. So I got...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 3:19 PM

One to Remember

We were at a meeting with our customers the other day. The meeting was about the new release of our software - we showed them what we are trying to achieve, and requested their comments. One of the users who attended the meeting just couldn't understand why we keep releasing the software, fixing it, releasing it again, adding more features, releasing it again, etc. His exact words were "Why do we need all these meetings, and so many releases? Can't you just think really hard about the...
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Friday, July 20, 2007 8:16 PM

What I am doing to become a better developer

Oren has tagged me to answer the question in the headline. I guess the simple answer would be "Code a lot", since I really feel that's the only way one can become a significantly better developer. The more complex answer consists with subjects I don't know (or don't have much experience with) that I would like to learn. It wasn't easy coming up with this list, mainly because there I so many things I would like to learn, and I had to focus myself on the subjects that I feel that I will actually get...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 4:18 PM

Failure is a Friend

I'm a forgetful person. I almost never leave a room without coming back to it to take something I left behind. I tend to forget birthdays and other important events. And so I worked up little mechanisms to help me remember stuff, such as writing everything down, and setting reminders in my cell for phone-calls I need to remember to make. One issue I always had, was going back to a certain piece of code I'm writing, a day or two later. I waste at least 10 minutes trying to remember what exactly I...
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Friday, June 29, 2007 10:59 AM

The 5 Most Difficult Issues in Software Development

Recently I had an argument with a friend about what I felt were the most technically-difficult problems in developing software. These are issues that have troubled developers since the early days of programming, and are inherently difficult. I feel that it is unlikely that they'll be completely "solved" by any new technology. 5. Spatial data. I might be biased about this, because I work with GIS systems, but there's something about data that has a geographic location that makes it 10-times more complicated...
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Monday, February 12, 2007 5:56 PM

The Bug and You

One thing I learned over the years is that programming can tell you a lot about yourself, and even improve you as a person. Can you handle intense pressure? Can you make the impossible possible by finding creative solutions? Imagine the bug of your nightmares creeping into your code days before the deadline. This bug, like all really annoying bugs, is happening randomly, caused by no apparent reason, and is impossible to solve. Think segmentation-faults in your university C++ project 10 hours before...
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