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Comment on Thinking in code by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:21:49 +0000

Good catch! I’ve updated the code in the article.

Comment on VisEmacs.NET pretest by Unwound Stack » VisEmacs

Unwound Stack » VisEmacs — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:05:53 +0000

[...] with the new Add-In model (i.e. not DevStudio 6), and has even made a preliminary version available here. So, if you’re not interested in backward compatibility with DevStudio 6, you might want to [...]

Comment on Thinking in code by Rolfhub

Rolfhub — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:47:41 +0000

I think you made a small mistake here:

In the original it reads “if (!p) return;”

This should be equivalent to “if (p == NULL) return;”

In both cases, the function simply returns if the pointer p is not a valid one.

Otherwise, I very much agree with you.

Comment on Stretchy Designs by Jon Tan

Jon Tan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:33:07 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Jeff! Good to hear my thorny prose can translate for engineers.

Comment on Textmate on Windows - Introducing ‘E’ by Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:27:51 +0000

Thanks for the tip! E seems to be defaulting to RoR mode for me now with version 1.0.9.

I still use E for ruby development, but had to abandon it for C++; it was silently converting from Unicode to UTF-8 when saving.

Comment on Textmate on Windows - Introducing ‘E’ by Clemens

Clemens — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:27:47 +0000

If you still face the problem that e is not defaulting to rails mode for ruby code, go and edit Syntaxes/Ruby.plist in your Ruby.tmbundle directory and make sure the file extension you use for ruby files is in the fileTypes list around line 47.
Also there’s a quick way of switching to ruby mode by pressing Win+Alt+Shift+R as defined in lines 94 and 95 of the Sytaxes/Ruby.plist file in the ruby bundle.

Comment on New Series: Rails Application Walkthrough by link[rel=’developer’] » Testimony Part II:

link[rel=’developer’] » Testimony Part II: — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:23:22 +0000

[...] Part II: Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Jeff [This is part II of the Testimony Rails Application Walkthrough [...]

Comment on The Art of the Exit by Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:22:49 +0000

Thanks Hans, I had fun writing it. Personal agendas do get in the way of a good team culture, as you say but what I experienced was a place that professed to have a great culture but it was only in theory, not practice. The developers were pretty much united in a common cause of making the code, and thus the product better, but were not allowed to do so.

There are big changes in the air there, and it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

Comment on The Art of the Exit by Hans-Eric Grönlund

Hans-Eric Grönlund — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:14:02 +0000

Very interesting, great post!
It’s a very common phenomena in big companies that a large amount of the employees have their own agendas. Thus it’s hard for them to grow team cultures, leading to a spiral of death for enthusiasm.
One problem is that the ones who are hired to prevent this, the managers, often themselves are not inspired enough to do a good job. They should be more like the HR-person you experienced.

Comment on Culture of Failure by link[rel=’developer’] » The Art of the Exit

link[rel=’developer’] » The Art of the Exit — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:07:07 +0000

[...] on August 30th, 2007 by Jeff So you’re discovered that the company you work for has a culture of failure, and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. You’ve finally realized that [...]