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A Small DSL Boolean Compiler

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Mosquitoes, Trains, and Software. A Small DSL Boolean Compiler. 2 January 2011 15:56. Too many software engineers when they hear the word custom compiler run for the nearest soda machine. Although writing a fully functional compiler takes lots of work, writing a small compiler is simple and can reap huge benefits. The boolean logic operators we use are not standard operators a programmer would recognize. A valid expression could look something like ([A]&! The code example to be compiled is below. The fir...

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Curiosity

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Effective Leaders Demand Accountability. 3 July 2011 16:43. Realizing the unique properties of the mold, he spent weeks growing mold trying to determine the type. After consulting with a Mycologist, they determined the type to be a rare strain of Penicillium notatum. Fleming named it penicillin. Fresh out of college, I started my career at National Instruments. Among all the employees that walked through the doors of the Mopac C building, none had a greater influence on the software direction of the ...

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Windbg and SOS for Visual Studio .NET Weenies

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The Dreaded Switch Statement. Windbg and SOS for Visual Studio .NET Weenies. 10 February 2010 16:07. During the many breaks we had between presentations, I was able to sit next to a few of the Mono developers and watch them code. They were very efficient with GDB and VI—the command line debugger and editor of choice for any self respecting Linux hacker. Still I figured, I was just as productive in Visual Studio. Below is a few commands and a tutorial on tracking down a leak in an example program. Private...

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Business Math

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4 April 2010 10:22. Years later, while reading business books, it dawned on me that in the world of understanding how businesses work calculating percentages is essential. Not knowing them would be like coming across a program without for loops causing the intelligence of the author to be questioned. And like for loops in programs, percents are everywhere in business. What percent of revenue is spent on R&D vs. Sales vs. Marketing? How do those percents compare to our competitors? First rule of percent c...

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Distribution is King

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21 August 2010 13:03. When business people talk about distribution they are referring to not only how many stores the product is in but, as in the case of software, how many users are actually using the product. The greater the distribution the more valuable the business. Make no mistake, try to sell a business that has no distribution and there will be surprisingly little interest. But then they say no. In ASP.NET MVC. It included features like an HOA corner where HOA members could post events, ...Not c...

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Your Individual Currency

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Mosquitoes, Trains, and Software. 20 February 2011 14:41. The economy of Germany after WWI could not have been worse. Squeezed by the allies and pinched by the communists, Germany was in desperate straits to get its economy back. Facing high unemployment and reparation, they turned to the printing press. What started as an attempt to juice the economy quickly lead to rising prices. Countries may have their currencies but individuals have them also. Not dollars, euros, or yuan but imaginary currency&#...

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Recommended Books

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Smart people learn from their experiences but smarter people also learn from the experience of others.". A business consists of more than just technology. Below are books that have helped me gain a greater appreciation for those other things. A book about why stock prices in the short term are random and no one can predict the future. Better to invest in index funds with their low fees than pay high fees for managed funds that rarely out perform index funds over time. In depth book on value investing.

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All posts by breeve

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Pickaxe - Screen scrape directly into SQL Server tables. 14 May 2016 11:45. Pickaxe uses SQL like syntax to scrape data from web sites. It is hosted on github. And is open source. Recently, I added functionality to insert scraped results directly into SQL Server. The example below screen scrapes Lake Travis water levels and inserts the results directly into SQL server. Visit the Pickaxe download page. To run the code below. The attached youtube video shows how the code was developed. From download page (.

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Visibility

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Programmers and Office Space. A Small DSL Boolean Compiler. 19 November 2010 16:28. The basketball tryouts began innocently enough. A few jumpers, a couple drills. But something was not right. The coaches barely seemed to be paying attention. Only every so often would they catch a glimpse of someone’s jump shot or more importantly of mine. Of course, other things like worth ethic and the ability to get things done count for a great deal but those are hard qualities to judge during a two hour interview or...

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Symbol Server Setup

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Your Business Made a Mistake, Admit it. 23 October 2009 15:57. A symbol server ensures that you are able to get pdbs and source code for your dlls or executables from any machine. Let’s get started. To get started, you will need to have your source stored in source code control. The source control products supported by symbol server out of the box are: Perforce, Visual SourceSafe, Team Foundation Server, Concurrent Versions System, and Subversion. Next, download the Debugging tools for windows. This tool...