Link: Rubber Ducking The Pragmatic Programmer calls it “Rubber Duck Debugging”: sometimes, the most intractable problems resolve themselves only when you explain them to someone else. Even if that person just nods, even if they have absolutely no ideawhat you’re talking about, the act of describing your problem often dislodges the solution.
Link: Evolution of a Programmer
gamefreaksnz: mr. monkey (by Vinicius Quesada) That is fantastic!
Link: Facebaiting A few months ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation asked its readers to coin neologisms for “the act of creating deliberately confusing jargon and user-interfaces which trick your users”. Here’s a selection of what came back: “Zuckermining”, “Infozuckering”, “Zuckerpunch”, “Facebooking”, “Facebaiting” and “Facebunk”.
Illustrated WPF (Expert’s Voice in .NET) Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4 Pro Silverlight 4 in C#
getting into this RESTful idea for data presentation. http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/article.php/c17045
Link: Life lessons you learn from video games 15. Oregon Trail Life lesson: The road to fulfillment is littered with compromise, also dysentery
Link: When we used to blow on the cartridges…