Tag: blogging
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Mermaid diagrams
Famously an picture is worth a thousand words. That may or may not be true but a diagram can definitely help explain something. There’s plenty of software and online tools to help with this but, in my experience, making a diagram can still take a lot of time. It’s good to do but if you…
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Forever change
Let’s start with a few updates about the blogs. I’m going to be busier in the coming weeks so, for now, posts will only be once a week. It might be possible to go back to twice a week once things have settled down. We’ll have to see. If you’ve been reading from the start…
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Retrospective 1-26
One of my original goals with this blog was to manage 26 posts in 6 months. Here I am in 3 months. Well done me. This one is both a retrospective of that achievement and my thoughts about retrospectives themselves. I think they’re a good idea but… I’m not entirely sure they work. Retrospectives Maybe…
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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…