Jerry Yoakum:
Cogitation about Computing

Jerry Yoakum's thoughts on software engineering and architecture from experience working with code, computer science, python, java, APIs, NASA, data mining, math, etc.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Properties of Deliberate Practice

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Some of the following is a couple pages from Talent is Overrated . It is a good book, if you care about improving your performance and agree...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Abstraction

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We all know that the only mental tool by means of which a very finite piece of reasoning can cover a myriad cases is called "abstracti...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Agile non-negotibles

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Agile non-negotiables are those software engineering practices that you'd be crazy to go without. Unit Testing: Knowing your code work...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Pair Programming

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I'm a big fan of pair programming. I have used it many times and almost everytime the result was better code that was developed faster. ...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Merciless Refactoring

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Many people are afraid to make code changes out of fear that they will break the code. To ensure you can safely make code changes you should...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

HIV/AIDS Cure Proof of Concept

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New York magazine had this great article, " The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not ", last month. It is as the title says about a ma...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Secret Santa

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I wrote a little webapp to create secret Santa lists: http://secret-santa-list.appspot.com/ It has a nifty feature that allows you to spe...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

New Nutrition Goals for dailyburn.com

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If you are not happy with dailyburn's suggested nutritional goals because you find them to be too heavy on protein and unrealistic for c...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Duracell donates emergency supplies to Springfield

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I know that Springfield has had some bad storms but I never really felt in danger. I guess it is a bit riskier than I thought because Spring...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

Googlism

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I just found http://www.googlism.com . It is an interesting waste of time for an individual but possibly a quick summary of a business' ...
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