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Author Archives: Jeroen van Doorn
Ruby method names ending with ?
Warning: I can’t think up something practical about what I prefer and explain below! Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Last week I found myself writing a method ending with a question mark, but it wasn’t returning a Boolean. Just as most of the other methods ending with a question mark I wrote the last [...]
Structuring my free time
Because there are too many things I like to do and because I also find myself spending a whole night in front of the television and wondering afterward what I’ve seen, I’ve decided to structure my free time a bit more. It seems quite contradictory to structure your free time, but the last years I’ve [...]
Fantasy Books and simultaneous reading
In my free time I like to read Fantasy and Science Fiction books. Though Fantasy is my preferred genre I did read quite a lot of SF pockets lately which I got from my father in law. My girlfriend is, just like here father, more of a SF reader so I tried to convince here [...]
HTML5 For Web Designers
Just finished ‘HTML5 For Web Designers‘ by Jeremy Keith. It is a short but comprehensive guide into the world of HTML5. If you haven’t, like me, took the time yet to dive into HTML5. This is definitely a great start and a must read. For those who are already experimenting with HTML5 and regularly visit [...]
If you are explaining something …
And your public is not grasping what you try to explain. Big chance you are suffering from ‘The Curse of Knowledge’ knowledge from ‘Made to Stick’ by Dan & Chip Heath
Pragmatic Programmers Magazine
Most of the programmers I know have read one or more books from ‘The pragmatic programmers’ and if they didn’t the have probably heard of the publisher. What I myself didn’t know is that they also publish a free magazine every month http://pragprog.com/magazines I haven’t read anything yet, but I didn’t want to keep this [...]
Tips on blogging
Because I’m determined to make my blogging adventure a bit more successful this time, I’m reading up on blogging tips. I find this article about becoming a professional tech blogger quite inspiring, but unfortunately it is not very concrete about the do’s and don’ts in the blogosphere. There are a lot of sites around the [...]
Writing a blog is hard!
Though I think for some blogging is easy, I’m sure that most people experienced their blogging adventure somewhat the same as I did. A few years ago I started writing some blog posts, but quite soon after I started it went harder and harder to keep writing, eventually I just stopped writing. The same happened [...]
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