I'm still torn between wiki docs and docs in a repo. My experience has been that devs are more diligent (myself included) with repo docs.
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Inline::C in #Perl is extremely neat. Makes calling C code trivial. http://t.co/FsImwWtc
Twitter and IRC bots are a lot of fun. There is something satisfying about building a tool in a shared environment.
@bendodson Your tube API is brilliant, thanks. Could you fix the JSON MIME type? It should be application/json but it's application/x-json.
The more languages you code in, the more you see the flaws in the one you're using right now. #inevitablelanguagesnob
Several languages have docstrings, but I love #Python's convention of an example usage in the docstring. Literate programming that works.
It's nice to see ISPs who are forced to block sites show a 'site blocked' error. Faking an error feels dishonest.
It's amazing how many computer problems disappear when you replace faulty RAM.
The destructuring assignment in #Clojure is the best I've seen in a long time. Very general and readable.
I've concluded that most internal wikis should show the age of the page at the top. It's important to show freshness.
I've actually seen a project with #Guile Scheme plugin support! http://t.co/Qt4P8weV Sure there are others, but it's so rare.
Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months, might as well have been written by someone else.
I have yet to see a variable that could not be called 'data'. Thus it seems like a lousy variable name.
Programming languages tend towards more power over time. Even Lisp and Fortran.
Idling in Freenode is a wonderful way to learn by osmosis. This is true for both languages and tools, provided the regulars are friendly.
Django is remarkably faster on Pypy than CPython: http://t.co/QKpHr2Tb
Macros aren't just for Lispers. #Scala, #Perl 6 and #Haskell have them too!
I'm not sure I've ever used a program and said "oh, if only it had more settings!".
Wappr: http://t.co/aclZKd7w app wish list from tweets. Now, to find some time to do *more* projects.
Line length is the new tabs vs spaces.
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