Monthly Archives: October 2009

Web Dev Bash Utils

Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 by Seán Hayes

I’ve just open sourced these bash scripts I wrote for web development. They’re available on GitHub. Unfortunately they were written for use on a strict Unix environment with an outdated version of bash and without the benefit of GNU extensions … Continue reading →

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Does the Brain Like E-Books?

Posted on Sunday, October 18, 2009 by Seán Hayes

“Does the Brain Like E-Books?”, NY Times Due to the distractions and time constraints on the Internet, I wonder if publishing is going to change in a way that it would be just as attention grabbing if it were on … Continue reading →

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Whitespace Management: Use Tabs, Spaces Considered Harmful

Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 by Seán Hayes

At one of my previous jobs I worked on dozens of websites that had been created by other people. I prefer to use tabs instead of spaces when indenting code, and I can get a little OCD sometimes, so every … Continue reading →

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Survey of Best Programming Practices

Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 by Seán Hayes

I was having a talk today with some colleagues about the scarcity of web developers, and even software engineers, who use best practices such as: using version control using a bug tracker writing unit tests using a programming framework In … Continue reading →

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