I’ve had the chance to interview a few people lately. It’s just getting started, my calendar includes 3 interviews this week.
There are 2 parts to the interviews I give. In the first part, I like to talk about general interest in what’s going on in our field. In the second part, I ask people to [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Interviews and Coding Ability Gradation
Posted in development on April 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
history substitution vim trick
Posted in cli on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the tricks I’ve been using recently is:
vim `!!`
` (backtick) which is used on the command-line to substitute, in-place, the result of a command
!! (double-exclamation) which is replaced by the history mechanism by “previous command”
In short: open in vim the result of the previous command, which would be a list of files.
When I’m programming [...]
explicit iteration considered harmful
Posted in development on April 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Part of my journey, over the last year or so, to understand functional programming have led me to paradigm shifts and discoveries. One such discovery was: any? and all?.
Before going into the reasons of why these functions must be part of your toolkit, let me show you example code.
list = ['cat', 'dog', 'snake', 'crocodile', 'spider']
# [...]
