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Programming magic: Rituals and habits of effective programmers
- gaius 17y agoEvery morning I come in and stand in the middle of my team's area and ask is the site still up?
- vicaya 17y agoAre you a manager?
- jasongullickson 17y agoDoing an SVN "Update" before a commit even when I know I have the latest code (for example, when I'm the only coder working on the project).
- randallsquared 17y agoInteresting. I do a "status -u" instead, because "update" without knowing what's about to be updated scares me (but I've only been using svn consistently for a few months).
- stewiecat 17y agoRunning the entire suite of unit tests even though all I'm committing is a trivial bug fix.
- zacharydanger 17y agoI fall into this. Even when what I'm committing is just a markup change that doesn't even get touched by the unit tests.
- dhimes 17y ago+1 for scratchpad. I use a cheap spiral notebook. It gives me a place (other than the proverbial "back of the envelope" that I used to use) to write quick calculations, half-assed uml diagrams to think through the organizational structure, etc. I keep it as a journal, date and number each page, log the time of entries. I even put a table of contents on them! Almost never refer to them; hell, they're nearly incomprehensible a couple of months after the fact.
- windsurfer 17y agoTalking with other hackers and programmers about tips and habits for self-improvement :) (Which would be easier if I could reply to you guys in a timely manner...)
- sherl0ck 17y agoI always had my notepad + pen beside my keyboard. without those 2 things it just not feel right.
- mahmud 17y agoThis is not a ritual of mine, but something widely practiced by those around me: asking me for favors when I am hacking. I agree to everything!
- blogimus 17y agoOne of the things I do is run who, uptime, and free when I first log in to our development server. I'll repeat that periodically through the day. I ps aux if uptime shows any significant activity.