[ale] [SEMI-OT] Skills for programmers/engineers?

[Jim Kinney]

Dang! What size screen do you use!?

That is good advice wherever practical.
On Jan 27, 2014 11:42 PM, "Michael Potter" <michael at potter.name> wrote:

> "The best advice I've ever gotten about coding was to never have any function/method
> longer than 1 screen"
>
> +5
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
> > wrote:
>
>>  On 01/27/2014 06:38 PM, JD wrote:
>>
>> Forget the languages. What "tools" do are used?  Languages come and go, but
>> having a thorough understanding of CVS or git is timeless.
>>
>>  We used CVS for many years and then moved to SVN.
>>
>> SVN causes me some real headache with timestamps since I'm building a
>> whole system.  I store all file timestamps in a SQLite3 database and then
>> set them after a check out.  Otherwise we get many instances of configures
>> executing to create Makefiles.
>>
>>
>>
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