Over-optimized?
Recently, I’ve been dogged by a Subversion issue (and generally dogged by Subversion — Mercurial and Git are my new friends) that stumped me on and off for a...
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Task switching isn’t always bad
There is an (admittedly small) upside to working on something in small bursts. While there is a huge cost to task switching, a regularly scheduled task that ...
Running a JavaScript function when subscribed events stop occurring
Maybe this is well-known to the JavaScript coding community — below is a simple technique I’ve found that runs a block of JavaScript when subscribed events s...
Location known, but still lost
A started a new job in late 2010. At first, it seemed like something that was too good to be true at the time. It had a lot of awesome perks (to me, in no pa...
Patching vs. merging
One of those “fun” activities developers look forward to is merging code from one branch to another. The scenario I personal use most is merging changes from...