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09 Feb 09

8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.

"Don't kill yourself striving for 100% coverage of code with automated unit tests. But take a few minutes to increase your coverage by 1%. Most likely, that means going from 0% to 1%. And that's the biggest improvement of all."

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  • Increase code-coverage by 1%

    Don't kill yourself striving for 100% coverage of code with automated unit tests. But take a few minutes to increase your coverage by 1%.

    Most likely, that means going from 0% to 1%. And that's the biggest improvement of all.

21 Jan 09

Usefull tips to start a new project with Django

  • Only use null=True for non-string fields such as integers, booleans and dates: Avoid using null on string-based fields such as CharField and TextField unless you have an excellent reason.
  • Use fixtures to reimport data and test your apps manage.py dumpdata --indent=4 > initial.json and manage.py loaddata initial, don't spend time to reinsert data everyday with the admin
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14 Apr 08

The Silent Room Tone

Jokes as gauge of crowd mood: "The volume of the laugh is important, but so is the lag time. You can tell immediately if they're on your side, and if they're really following what you're saying, by how quickly the crowd responds to your jokes."

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03 Mar 08

5 Indispensable Tips for Emacs on Windows

Better windows editing through Emacs: Starting off With a Prettier Emacs; Add “Open In Emacs” option to all Files; Goodbye Capslock; Use a Spell Checker; Setup a Postscript Printer

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Macworld | Leopard power tips

Covered topics: Faster Screen Sharing; Power up Screen Sharing; Quickly clear Stacks; Speed up Folder Actions; Monitor your CPU cores; View plists in Quick Look; Secret Screen Savers; Clean up the ‘Open With’ menu

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Python programming in Emacs

How to setup Emacs for Python, using Dave Love’s python.el, ido-mode.el, ropemacs, smart-snippet.el and some additional elisp code.

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11 Feb 08

SuperCook - The Intelligent Recipe Search Engine

"Supercook is a new recipe search engine that finds recipes you can make with the ingredients you have at home. To begin, simply start adding ingredients you have. The more ingredients you add, the better the results will be."

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SSW Rules to Better SQL Server Databases

"Here are some of the typical things that all SQL Server DBAs and Database developers should know. These rules are above and beyond the most basic textbook recommendations"

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29 Nov 07

Top 10 CSS Resources For Beginners (Mini Series Part 3)

"As a novice "coder" i've built up a small resource of the best internet sites that help me with CSS. For any expert reader these may cut your mustard, but every one has to learn from some where."

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