thomanil

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by thomanil 17y ago
Maybe this has been asked before, but what the hey: Is anyone here on HN using Clojure for commercial production code - websites or otherwise?
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by thomanil 17y ago
Good list. Not sure about the comprehensive spec at page 9 though: BDUF - Big Design Up Front is often a naive approach. Requirements and constraints tend to change as you go along. Too much up front specification can be a waste if 30 perce
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by thomanil 17y ago
Physical whiteboard in the same room. Big screen. A command line (Terminal on mac, cmd.exe on windows). A launcher app (Quicksilver on mac, Colibri on windows) An editor (TextMate in mac os, NetBeans in windows). A mindmap editor for planni
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by thomanil 17y ago
Sappy but uplifting video. I'm going to bookmark it and replay it when motivation for my mISV starts flagging. :)
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by thomanil 17y ago
Oh and if you plan on doing anything web-related, learn Javascript (properly!) - this will also expose you to functional programming technique. http://javascript.crockford.com/little.html
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by thomanil 17y ago
Check out the book 'The Little Schemer'. Good way to ease your mind into functional programming. Also consider learning a dynamic 'scripting' language like Ruby or Python. They have some functional aspects, and will teach you programming st
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by thomanil 17y ago
You forgot to mention one early step: Research market/niche viability. Are there enough likely customers out there for what you want to build and sell? It's a good idea to do this up-front before sinking hundreds of hours into a project, on
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by thomanil 18y ago
What he said, apart from a few differences that I've found works for me (YMMV): 1. Do ENOUGH design and requirement gathering up front. Talk to stakeholders and users. Play around with any unfamiliar technology that you're required to use.
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Eggs, Tomatoes and Time Management(kjeldahlnilsson.net)
3 points by thomanil 18y ago|0 comments
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by thomanil 18y ago
I have these guys's blogs posted under "Software Development A-list" in my RSS reader: Steve Yegge, Joel Spolsky,Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), Martin Fowler, Ted Neward, Andy Hunt, Steve McConnell (10x Software Development), Michael Feathers
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Ask HN: Best approaches for Javascript game graphics?
4 points by thomanil 18y ago|1 comments