The Product

Is this the answer? "Sculley believed in keeping people happy and worrying about relationships. Steve didn't give a shit about that. But he did care about the product in a way that Sculley never could, and he was able to avoid having too many bozos working at Apple by insulting anyone who wasn't an A player."

8353: Bugs today

1) Was chasing around this bug for a few hours: for some reason my posts for my navigation bar wouldn't go to the right URL (select_auction.php), except when I was at the right URL (select_auction.php) to begin with. Turns out, I wrote

action-"select_auction.php"

What surprises me is the fact that this worked correctly for when I was at select_auction.php. I guess the default behavior for HTML is rather tolerant (redirect confused posts to self) which makes it hard to find bugs!

8352: Bugs today

1) For MySQL Queries, don't forget the "Quotations that surround text fields" when INSERTing new values
2) Know when to tinker, and when to use the manual

Quickie on Make Files

Found it at this quick Makefile Tutorial

CC=g++
CFLAGS=-c -Wall
LDFLAGS=
SOURCES=main.cpp hello.cpp factorial.cpp
OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:.cpp=.o)
EXECUTABLE=hello

all: $(SOURCES) $(EXECUTABLE)
 
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJECTS) 
 $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) -o $@

.cpp.o:
 $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@

Bugs I was caught up on today

161 Program:
(+) Using a bit counter, identifying the right bit in a bunch of buckets.
(+) Dereferencing and incrementing properly in the same line

Meeting with Travis - On beginning

Travis, founder of 27bards.com gave me some advice on starting out. Key takeaways?

First, be solution-focused. Think about the problem you want to solve. Money is just a metric for the value of your answers.

Next, work effectively. Your breaks should be commensurate with your work. Not getting enough sleep or space to think bogs down your mind, keeps you from holding complex code in your head. On the other hand, checking news every couple of minutes sucks.

Third, learn early and often. Do lots of side-projects. Learn LAMP. Just do it. And don't forget 1.

Schedule a meeting with him in another couple of weeks to check your progress.