Category Archives: Continuous Learning

Video: Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start (my presentation at Austin Code Camp 2011)

Here is the video of my “Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start” presentation I gave last week at the Austin Code Camp 2011. It touches on all the principles, patterns, practices, and such that I have learned in my many years being a developer. I designed the Padawan2Jedi talk to present knowledge in a […]

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Improving the Developer Culture at Your Workplace

Here are some of the things we do here at BancVue to help keep our developer culture healthy and strong. They are things you can do to improve the developer culture at your work. Many of these things can be started by anyone at the company, though a few may require management approval or financial […]

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs pdf is online

Many of you probably already knew this, but I just found out. I heard Uncle Bob mention this book in a podcast and have wanted to read it for quite a while. It’s not a cheap book, but I just found out its available online! You can get the pdf here on Scribd. Enjoy! -Chris […]

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Thou Shalt Not Love Thy Code

On my most recent project I have learned a very humbling, yet very useful lesson. Never fall in love with your code, or it will be too hard to let go. In the Agile world, your code needs to adapt to changing requirements and the introduction of new features. When this happens, it just might […]

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