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Was writing some code today and ended up with “Dictionary<string, List<Dictionary<string, string>>> resultDictionary” Does anyone else think that this is hideous? It’s a dictionary keyed by strings and holding lists of dictionaries keyed by strings and holding strings. And it is what you get when you have a statically typed… Read more“Ugly code”

Shocked that my last project at the hospital which my boss assured me will only take a few days to complete is going to take much longer.

There are 10 types of programmers in the world, those who have written a compiler and those who can’t read binary. I’ve never written a compiler. At college, I had to drop the class because of a conflict and have always wanted to write one ever since. Even if just… Read more“Jack Compiler”

The DisplayShelf’s original website is at http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/tutorial-displayshelf-component/ and this is a quote from that website. The DisplayShelf component demonstrates using a number of flex and flash concepts to provide a rich, templatable control to display a faux-3d view of a list of items. Its behavior is similar to the CoverFlow… Read more“Project: DisplayShelf Modifications”

has been a vital source of information for me and hardly a day goes by where i don’t use it to read up on something. Amazingly, topics covered on it range from the down right silly to the most advanced technical topic. All reviewed and scrutinized by the mass public…. Read more“On Wikipedia and freedom of access to information”

Update: I removed the source code from the blog post. You can now find it on my . Most Hadoop tutorials use the wordcount application as a demo application. And while this might be a good demo application, it is not particularly helpful. So i wanted to think of an… Read more“Working with Hadoop: My first MapReduce App”

Last week, i sat through a demo of a certain document management system provided by a vendor. The system in itself is pretty good. Although if it was up to me, I would never choose a proprietary system for a vital project. Since you essentially would be putting yourself and… Read more“On Licensing Terms”

When working as part of a team on a Django project, it is often useful to have a per-host settings file. There are many ways to do this but the approach that I liked most is creating a local_settings.py file in each environment. I’m often the only programmer on web… Read more“Per-host settings.py for Django projects”

My has a subscription to . So I’ve been having a blast looking at the different books over there. I found lots of books that are on my Amazon wish list and so i was like a child at a candy store. The problem is that the books are provided… Read more“Joining SpringerLink pdfs”

It just occurred to me today. Running your own business, you try to optimize the hell out of everything to make as much use of your time as possible. Employees on the other hand, wish to be as unproductive as possible. But i have to say, I still don’t understand… Read more“On Producitivity and running your own business”