Author Archives: Russ
Books of Twenty Twelve
People who like my writing sometimes ask me how I learned to do what I do. Or they want to know how they can learn to do it too. My answer is simple and in two parts: Write more and … Continue reading
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Eloquent Explanations Talk Is Now Online
The talk that I’ve had the most fun doing lately is finally online. Here’s the official description: Have you ever thought about how much of software engineering involves explaining things? We stick comments in our program to explain why we … Continue reading
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Another InformIT article!
I haven’t been blogging lately, but I have been writing. Along with the Best Advice article that came out last week I’ve also recently did an interview with Michael Hart, the author of Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition. Here’s how it … Continue reading
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The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got
The good folks over at InformIT have published another of my articles. Here’s how it starts: The best programming advice I ever got came to me early in my career while I was working on a system that I simultaneously … Continue reading
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Five Truths About Code Optimization
One of the things that is remarkable about programming is how the details keep changing while most of the fundamentals stay exactly the same. Here’s an article about code optimization that I wrote years ago that I required only very … Continue reading
Halfway Through 2012
Today is July 1 and that means that the first six months of 2012 are history. Here’s what I’ve been up to: Books Read Thirty Two. Sad that Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is not on that list. Happy that … Continue reading
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Acing The Technical Talk: The Secret Ingredient
In the last two installments we talked about how to create a technical talk worth listening to. In this post I’m going to spill the secret ingredient behind all interesting public speaking. The good news is that the secret sauce … Continue reading
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Acing the Technical Talk: Getting Your Proposal Through the Door
So here I am in the middle of a series of articles about doing a good technical talk when one of my Relevance co-workers asked the obvious question zero: How do I get my talk proposal accepted in the first … Continue reading
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Acing The Technical Talk: Take Control Of the Room
Last time we looked at how to get ready for your talk, about how you want to think through the points that you want to make before you dive into the world of Keynote or Powerpoint. We also saw how … Continue reading
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