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Writing Maintainable Code

Submitted by Bevan on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 - 1:41pm

I've just uploaded files from todays presentation Writing Maintainable Code, as delivered to the MS Communities Code Camp 2010. Included is the PDF of my speakers notes, and a zip file of the diagrams and code I used.

Building a Programmers Blog: What to deploy

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 - 8:00am

One piece of feedback I've received about this series of posts was about a simple thing that I'd overlooked: If you got your site up and running using an all-in-one installer, such as the one from Acquia, how do you know what you need to deploy when you want to go-live.

New section - Code

Submitted by Bevan on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 - 10:20am

Based on site feedback (and encouragement from a couple of friends), I've added a new top-level area to the site: Code.

The idea is to collect together various code based blog posts in a way that's more accessible for a casual reader.

I'd be interested in your feedback.

Building a Programmers Blog: Theming

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 21 Aug 2010 - 8:00am

If you're like most developers, you're pretty fussy about the way that things look, but you're probably not the hottest designer around. Fortunately, there are plenty of themes available for Drupal that give you a great look and feel with just a little work.

Top 10 Mistakes to make in class

Submitted by Bevan on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 - 7:26am

A recent post on Paul Randals blog lists the top 10 mistakes people make when attending a course:

  1. Take a phone call during class
  2. Sit at the back and do email/surf and then ask questions
  3. Persist with a tangential rat-hole
  4. Bring your smelly lunch into the classroom
  5. Come to a class where you don't understand the language it's being taught in
  6. Come to a class without the required experience and knowledge
  7. Don't take notes
  8. Ask questions to try to make it look like you know more than the instructor
  9. Argue that the instructor is wrong
  10. Come to class looking for "the answer"

Go read the entire list. Are you guilty of doing any of these? Do you want to change?

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