Balance Programming
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Markdown to PowerPoint
When you writing documentation for your project Markdown lets you concentrate on the words rather than complicated formatting. You can take the same approach with PowerPoint. There are multiple tools out there which will do this. I’ve used marp and it makes very easy to make a presentation quickly. If presentations are a big part…
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In one glance
I’m surprised how often I come across large functions in projects. It’s not uncommon to come across functions with hundreds of lines. I’ve searched for something, jump in to the middle of a file, and then scrolled up desperately looking for the start of the function so I can start to understand what it’s doing.…
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400,000,000 times faster (again)
I realised that my previous post talks more about what you should do and less about why you should do it. I’ll try to rectify that. For me the important ideas were: I don’t think the first point is in question. The original python code for this problem may have been terrible. It’s not surprising…
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400,000,000 times faster
Matt Parker is a mathematician and comedian who writes books, makes podcasts and post YouTube videos. He originally release a podcast and then a video to solve a Wordl inspired problem. I’m going to concentrate on his follow up video. You can watch the videos but I’m going to start with a summary. The Wordl…
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Markdown to WordPress
When you writing documentation for your project Markdown lets you concentrate on the words rather than complicated formatting. It seems that I can take the same approach when blogging. The WordPress pluging Ultimate Markdown lets me start with simple markdown and then import. As this blog talks about balance there are bound to be ups…
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What is Balance Programming?
Software development has many goals. The code needs to be written quickly, clearly, with limited resources and so on. The software itself needs to be fast, easy to use, run on many platforms and more. As you achieve more of one goal it’s probably at the cost of another. If you software is highly optimised…