Tag Archives: Blogging coma

This tag gathers all the posts catching up on what I have been up to during my blogging coma that mysteriously happened from October 2011 to May 2012.

A relic from the past that makes you gasp and marvel at the present

Evolution of the role of software engineer

Posted on June 9, 2012 by eloone

Guess !

Quiz question : do you know what that is ?

If you were not a software geek during the 70’s, you probably have no idea. As a tip though, you should know that this represents in fact a one line machine instruction. So, have you guessed? No idea? Well, in that case, I’m very happy to introduce you to the punched card ! Ok, as a highly cultured reader you probably knew, but in my case I had no idea until I discovered it during my blogging coma. It’s a big discovery ! When you know what I discovered you’ll gasp and marvel.

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Posted in Favourites, Discoveries, Stories, U.I, Future

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Named after a variable

Posted on May 31, 2012 by eloone

A strange thought (among others) has crossed my mind today, it totally made my day. Let me come to it.

So, I have been learning code refactoring lately at work, one of the things that happened during my blogging coma. We have been peer programming and doing code reviews to share coding best practices. It’s a very worthy and interesting exercise, even if it’s still a bit difficult to not consider your code like a personal “creation” (d-d-d-don’t touch it!). There is always a little fear when another consciousness reads your code and rewrites it, but it’s a good way to improve your coding skills quickly.

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Posted in Thoughts, Devsworld

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