Programming – Page 5

Knowing When You've Wrote Crappy Code

By chad July 26, 2014Doing Things Better, Key Concepts, Programming, Software Engineering5 Comments

Note: This article was kicked off by one I read over at LosTechies. We write lots of code, statistically speaking some of it is what we'd deem as "crappy." If you're doing things right and progressing in your career and your understanding; your definition of "crappy code" should change over…

Isolate, Understand, Implement

By chad July 18, 2014Doing Things Better, Key Concepts, Programming, Software EngineeringNo Comments

Isolate, understand, implement: three very important things to remember when adding, modifying or replacing features on a project. The first step is to isolate the feature. Hopefully, your project is designed in such a way that once the code is isolated it is in a single place. The next step…

Generating JSON Documents From SQLite Databases In Python

By chad June 22, 2014Programming, Tips3 Comments

Special Note This article assumes that you do not wish to use a more sophisticated ORM tool such as SQLAlchemy. Some Setup Let's start with a Q&D sqlite database given the following sql. create table sample(column1 INTEGER, column2 TEXT, column3 TEXT, column4 REAL); insert into sample(column2, column2, column3, column4) values(1,…

First Impressions of Rust

By chad April 7, 2014Programming1 Comment

Today I finished my first program written in Rust 0.10. As with my article on Dart earlier this weekend I'm going to rely on Wikipedia for short intro for what Rust is. The goal of Rust is to be a good language for the creation of large client and server…

First Impressions of Dart

By chad April 5, 2014Programming1 Comment

Today I finished my first Dart tutorial. For those that don't know what Dart is, Wikipedia has a nice synopsis that I've included here. Dart is an open-source Webprogramming language developed by Google. It was unveiled at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, October 10–12, 2011.[4] The goal of Dart is…

Programming Progress

By chad December 20, 2011Doing Things Better, ProgrammingNo Comments

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” - Bill Gates I have that quote on my instant messenger. I found out Friday that someone had saw and used it. Its good that someone found it useful. It's a very valid point to…

DateTakenPhotoSorter.py – A python script for sorting photos

By chad September 19, 2009Photography, ProgrammingNo Comments

I decided this script was a necessity since I've been arranging my photos based on date taken since I bought my first Canon point and shoot. After buying my Nikon 5000, I was disappointed to find the Nikon's sync software did not break photos out into directories based on the…

MonoDevelop 2.0

By chad April 2, 2009Programming, TechnologyNo Comments

I heard about this today. I'm really impressed that they've brought it this far. I'm going to have it install it on one of my virtualized linux installs and try it out. The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop 2.0. MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily…