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The programming “zone”. Fiction or myth?
By
paan
The programming craft
Programming is a creative process. Despite the technical nature of programming codes, the process of coding is involves a lot of creative thinking and problem solving. Paul Graham talks of “Hacker and Painters” and compares the work of us code ninjas to the creative process of painting. And like all other creative task [...]
6 tips to make your fellow coders love you
By
paan
6 tips to make your fellow coders love you
Code readability is paramount in an environment where you are not the only one reading and writing the code. And even if you are the only developer of your system, I know more than a few coders that read a code that they wrote last week and [...]
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The programming “zone”. Fiction or myth?By
paan
The programming craft
Programming is a creative process. Despite the technical nature of programming codes, the process of coding is involves a lot of creative thinking and problem solving. Paul Graham talks of “Hacker and Painters” and compares the work of us code ninjas to the creative process of painting. And like all other creative task [...]
// How-to
Wanita & Komputer - A website for women in computingBy
paan
I have stumbled upon Wanita & Komputer. The tag line says it all “Tips mudah komputer hanya untuk wanita”.Roughly translated into ”Easy computing tips just for women”.
I think what makes me so excited about this site is that it does perfectly what I am trying to do most of the time. Give simple tips to ease [...]
// Tip & tricks
Tips and Tricks: change the group and umask your ftp files for securityBy
paan
The task
One of the problems when I am uploading files to a webserver is files permission needs to be reset everytime I upload a file so that you the webserver user can read the files. This is cubersome little thinkg especially when sometimes when I am coding and I reupload the script each time I [...]
// Rants
The programming “zone”. Fiction or myth?By
paan
The programming craft
Programming is a creative process. Despite the technical nature of programming codes, the process of coding is involves a lot of creative thinking and problem solving. Paul Graham talks of “Hacker and Painters” and compares the work of us code ninjas to the creative process of painting. And like all other creative task [...]
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Paludis released v0.28.0By
paan
I was catching up with some Gentoo new lately and found that they released Paludis a few days ago.
Paludis
Paludis is the package management system that was created by one of the old Gentoo developers to address some of the issues that was faced by portage, gentoo’s package management system. For the record, I love portage, [...]
// Knicks and knacks
Gentoo is back :DBy
paan
As I said before. I was catching up on the Gentoo news development lately. And in the off chance that someone is even more out of touch with the news than me, I’d just want to say that Gentoo 2008.0 has just been release on 6th of july, and in true gentoo fashion, release a [...]
