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After reading through Code Complete I decided to make up mind-maps on each topic in the hope that I would peruse them every so often to brush up on my programming best practice. Recently I decided take a look over them and was dismayed at the amount of knowledge from the book I’d forgotten or that hadn’t become habit. Sure I’d remember a decent chunk of the good stuff and it has certainly improved my programming ability but there was so much I’d missed, even from the tiny mind-maps I’d made. ...

Productivity has never been my strong point. I’m the ultimate procrastinator. I will literally do anything other than the task at hand. In fact this post is likely being written purely as I don’t want to study. But, the post itself is useful in it’s function to push me forward. I’ve gotten attracted to a very simple idea of “Just keep going”. In my head I imagine the Terminator, after being blown to bits, still getting up. I suffer from “Goldilocks procrastination”, essentially everything needs to be just right before anything can happen. On top of that everything needs to remain perfect for me to maintain it. On paper it’s insanely obvious that this will fail, but a lesson that’s taken me a while to learn. If I don’t have all the study materials or if I miss a run during the week and boom, never again. What’s the point? ...

I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to get a handy ec2 snapshot backup/management working. My google results have ranged from broken libraries to using bash scripts to do one aspect and php scripts to do another, all of the solutions seem to have serious issues with regions. Anyway I’ve coded up a very very stupidly simple bash script that’s based on the ec2-api-tools. Ubuntu based info here. Essentially sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools should get the required tools. ...

For anyone bored of trying to decide what to listen to at work I’d recommend indie 103.1. Decent music and as it’s in La it’s 8 hours behind, so no annoying presenters during the work day(If you’re in the timezone of course). Anyway, for anyone rocking mplayer a bash alias for ya. I guess for those who don’t you can just the url…. alias listen_indie1031=“mplayer http://208.80.52.108:80/KDLDFMCMP3” The stream even pulls down artist/trackname. ...

Daily WTF-Shopping Carts Really entertaining how the writer “thought” through this solution. Amazing.

Best job of 2011 Apparently.

Intel Insider-Now hardware can screw you with copy protection. Another product I have to remember never to buy. Companies should be punished for this behaviour.

PHP isn’t friends with big numbers. Wonder where I can stick this number to cause some serious problems.

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