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Writing About Code: Structure
Many of us were taught a five-paragraph mode of construction: tell us what you’re going to tell us, tell us, then tell us what you told us. This is boring, repetitive, and evil. More notes from a presentation I gave… Continue reading
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Writing About Code: Getting Started
Writing code is job one for most software developers, but learning to write *about* code is almost as important. Whether you’re documenting an API or showing off your own smarts, when you set out to write about what you think… Continue reading
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Return of the Jedi Remembered
30 years ago today, two friends and I ditched school to see the very first screening of Return of the Jedi on its opening day on the biggest movie screen in the county. It turned out to be a significant day in… Continue reading
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Terms of Service
Online services are going to steal all of our content and use it to enrich themselves. Or maybe they’re not. It makes for great paranoid headlines whenever a popular site updates their terms of services, but what’s really happening in… Continue reading
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Coder Interviews at the Code Project
I’ve been working with software developers for a long time now, and one thing I learned along the way is that coders are a diverse bunch. That’s one reason why it has been fun and entertaining to launch our A Coder… Continue reading
Terrence Dorsey 