I wrote this article for the CodeProject back in 2002 during my first consulting career as a web developer as a way to boost my visibility. I am capturing it here for my archives. The article is based on Perl 5.…
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Performance and Working Fast (shapeof.com) I think the reason I don't work fast anymore is because the code I write and any other actions I take for work cause ripples that effect a whole lot more people now than they did 10 years ago. I have to be conscious of this (at least I assume I do, or should be). I often wish that software developers were criminally liable for the code they write. I have disdain for this way…
Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard ...for the most part, ... introductory tools do a great job of guiding you like a child in a crosswalk past the big scary variables and conditional statements and through the early phases of programming syntax. As you conquer one after another of their gamified challenges, your confidence rises. Maybe you can do this after all! How hard can it be? You're basically a developer already! I've written code since I was…