Programming Advice

Posted by John Williams
January 9, 2008

http://xhtml-css.com/blog/7-top-advises-to-program-like-a-master

English is clearly not his first language (he admits it’s his fourth in the article) but he has some excellent suggestions..  Now if only I could figure out how to deploy a versioning control system..  I’ve been spending hours and hours lately cleaning the house and throwing away things that I’ve not looked at in years, and going through files I’ve not looked at in years and trying to tame the duplication creep that has entered in to my file library.

The bad habit of just dumping a bunch of files on to my file storage drive for later sorting has gotten out of hand.  I have more than 4 years of accumulated files, including at least 3-4 duplicates of some files.  In the last 4 days I’ve deleted more than 4 GB of duplicate files.  If I had a VCS I could just let it control the versions on 99% of the files that I have.  What would be even cooler is if the VCS allowed me to version control binary files…

ahh, imagination…

So now begins my attempt to reorganize everything.

  1. Got a text editor years ago..  TextPad is my friend.
  2. Need VCS
  3. I have my snippet library farm (many links) and google is invaluable
  4. Keep a to do list.  These are my todo lists
  5. Refer to a limited library when learning something new (don’t overwhelm yourself)..  I have books on PHP, SQL, encryption, vbscript, ASP, and more.
  6. Do something (make progress even in small ways)
  7. Take time for life hobbies, check… work, check… friends, check… girlfriend, check.
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