Hi Taryn,
It seems to me you are looking for a project to exercise and to learn
new tricks in
programming. Project that challenges you enough but not too much, for
starters. An
environment that provides feedbacks - positive, neutral, or negative or
peer reviews
of your work.
Then, if I w
* Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:09:52PM +1000, Taryn East wrote:
> > what nobody else is going to bite? :(
>
> Depends whether you wanted programming in the small or large.
anything and everything will help.
> Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls books
* Ian Wienand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> So the best code is code you look at and say "is that it - I could
> have done that", even though you probably couldn't have.
good point!
> If you're interested in systems, I'd suggest starting with an
> intermediate step of some good books first, t
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:09:52PM +1000, Taryn East wrote:
> what nobody else is going to bite? :(
Depends whether you wanted programming in the small or large.
Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls books are excellent.
Not sure whether they count as FOSS though.
Matt
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SLUG - Sydney Linux User's
> I'm asking for anybody's opinion of code that they think is worthwhile to
> look at. It doesn't have to be universally accepted as being perfect
> (though that would be really good if you know of any) just what you
> have found to be really great.
>
> cheers,
> Taryn
> [who is trying to prod a sl
Taryn East wrote:
> what nobody else is going to bite? :(
>
> I felt for sure there'd at least be one person self-promoting:
> "my code is briliant, you should come see it in my project foo" ;)
I've spent many long hours on libsndfile:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
It had its first
Taryn East wrote:
I've been making do with thedailywtf.com but it doesn't always have the
same ring to it. :)
I read the dailyWTF for sheer entertainment value :)
I wonder why 90%+ of the examples are from Windows developers?
The site is a great source of antipatterns.
cheers
rickw
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* Benno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
> of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
> IMHO.[1]
make sense - but surely there's some code around that has had the
greatest amount of suckiness removed... or at lea
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:55:06PM +1000, Benno wrote:
> On Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 13:09:52 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
> >what nobody else is going to bite? :(
>
> I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
> of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
> IMHO.[1]
* QuantumG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> I heard someone bitching the other day that gtk+/python apps are slow.
> Not been my experience, but if you're sufficiently bored, why don't you
> download some and see for yourself?
I guess my point was that there are so many out there to choose fro
Rajnish wrote:
Benno wrote:
So I think in the tradiation of anti-partterns, it is best to ask,
which code sucks and why, and then try to avoid doing that.
I recall reading something similar in a M$ publication a long time ago.
One has to go through
many iterations bad code/design before
Benno wrote:
> On Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 13:09:52 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
> >what nobody else is going to bite? :(
>
> I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
> of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
> IMHO.[1]
>
> So I think in the tradiation of an
Benno wrote:
So I think in the tradiation of anti-partterns, it is best to ask,
which code sucks and why, and then try to avoid doing that.
I recall reading something similar in a M$ publication a long time ago.
One has to go through
many iterations bad code/design before one recognises on
Taryn East wrote:
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
I heard someone bitching the other day that gtk+/python apps are slow.
Not been my experience, but if you're sufficiently bored, why don't you
download some and see for yourself?
Trent
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing L
On Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 13:09:52 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
>what nobody else is going to bite? :(
I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
IMHO.[1]
So I think in the tradiation of anti-partterns, it is best to as
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
I felt for sure there'd at least be one person self-promoting:
"my code is briliant, you should come see it in my project foo" ;)
I'm asking for anybody's opinion of code that they think is worthwhile to
look at. It doesn't have to be universally accepted as
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