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I have been using LaunchBar since version 3 (as of now, version 5 RC4) and one of the features I like is being able to run search from its simple interface. After activating LaunchBar (with simple Control-Space key combination), I enter ‘goog’ (short for Google search) and press Enter key. Type your search terms and [...]
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I picked up some programming books to read over this summer. The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. The Pragmatic Programmer from Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt/David Thomas The Art of Concurrency by Clay Breshears Pragmatic Version Control Using Git by Travis Swicegood I picked up The Mythical Man-Month and The Pragmatic Programmer [...]
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I finally received a new workstation (Dell Precision T3500) at work. My old one from two years ago (Another Dell machine, running dual Pentium 4 3.0GHz with 4GB RAM) builds my project in 12 minutes from scratch (Visual Studio 2005 project containing 82 sub-projects). My colleague’s workstation builds it in less than 3 minutes. I [...]
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I picked up The Productive Programmer (by Neal Ford, O’Reilly) shortly after my business trip to France. I have seen this book at bookstores and even skimmed a few pages a number of times, but I never put it into my reading list until early this month. I have been working on my current software [...]
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I spent some time watching Becoming Productive in Xcode (by Mike Clark) from The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I have used Xcode (and I am still learning Cocoa) but I am still a Xcode beginner (I use code completion and that’s it). After checking out the free sampler video, I thought it might be worth US$10 to [...]
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In Pragmatic Thinking & Learning, Andy Hunt describes how your brain (and mine) works and discusses how you can improve your thinking and learning skills. I picked up this book/PDF because as a programmer, I found this topic interesting but also because I found it difficult to focus and learn new skills. The author starts [...]
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