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Monthly Archive January, 2008

Crosswalk: The Erlang Pickaxe

Mark Mzyk January 16, 2008

I picked up Programming Erlang the other day. Kevin has talked me into learning it (along with about three other languages). I’ve only just begun to digest the book, but, seeing as it’s a Pragmatic Programmer’s title, it caused me to reflect on on the Pickaxe. Pickaxe is the Prag Prog book on Ruby that [...]

General,Languages - 4 Comments


Sign Your Work

Mark Mzyk January 14, 2008

The world would be a better place if all programmers did one thing: Signed their work. I truly believe this. You should too. There’s a reason this is the the final tip in The Pragmatic Programmer. It’s so important a point that it ends the book. It was chosen to leave the lasting impression. So [...]

General,Programming,Software Engineering - 2 Comments


TDD: Why is it so hard?

Mark Mzyk January 10, 2008

In my previous post I told you I wasn’t going to write about TDD (Test Driven Development) in the near future. Well, as you can tell from the title of this post, I lied. I fully blame Chuck. If he had not blogged about it, it wouldn’t have festered in the back of my mind [...]

Software Engineering - 1 Comments