A couple of days ago my wife asked me: “How do you learn.” She is really great at this kind of question, which doesn’t seem to have an answer. At least I had no idea how I actually was learning. But my impression is that I am learning reasonably well. On the other hand, learning [...]
Debugging is said to take about just as much time as coding, possibly even longer. Yet I don’t see a discussion about how to debug. So lets propose my personal process on this:
Gather information. Make sure you have reliable information about
Which application has a problem
What are the steps to reproduce the problem
The version of the [...]
Jurgen Appelo wrote a great Article about his new strategy to read books in a parallel and non-sequential way. He uses sticky notes to mark the chapters he read in a book, thereby allowing him to read the most important unread chapter whenever he wants to read.
I like the concept, but it does not work [...]