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Shoveling Snow and Fixing Bugs

Dec 27 –

Shoveling snow is best done early, you may have to do it again, but it is a far easier affair. The same is true of buggy or troublesome code in a project, the sooner you fix the code the easier it will be.
The longer you wait to shovel the worse it gets, besides the additional [...]

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Pass Time “Estimating a Feature”

Dec 24 –

So as I am channel surfing, and I come across the show Pass Time. I watched two episodes straight through last night. For those of you who have never seen it, the show is a drag race crossed with a game show. Three contestants must guess the pass time of a hot rod in the [...]

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Don’t Repeat Anyone’s Work (DRAW)

Nov 20 –

As programmers we forget the fact that many of the problems we encounter every day have already been solved. We don’t need to write a sort algorithm, create a new type of data structure, or write an encryption library from scratch.  We try not to repeat ourselves, but we have no problem repeating every one [...]

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About Ian Lintner


I am a software developer, mostly web,  in Des Moines, Iowa. I take a very opinionated stand concerning development, you will never regret a simple design or architecture. My education was at Drake University in Biology and Computer Science. Offline I am recently married to my wife Heather. I try my hand at many hobbies currently I am gardening till the snow comes in.



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