The start of a long journey
A couple of weeks ago I posted about my ideas for the future of this site. Well today I start making good on those lofty promises. I will be posting my first tutorial, which will cover test driven development, shortly. Before I do that I want to give a bit of an explanation of this project, why I am doing it, what I hope to accomplish, a few other thoughts, and finally some technical notes.
Thanks for the hits!
My blog passed a major milestone today, I finally eclipsed 1,000 visitors in a single day! I want to say thanks to everybody who has visited this site and I hope you find it useful. I have a lot of big ideas for the future so be sure to check back again sometime. Help support Turnleaf Design by leaving comments, or sharing posts with friends, colleague, or on social sites. Thanks again!
Plagiarism doesn’t pay
I was informed today by one of the commenters on my site that two of my articles have been plagiarized. The author, Marius Stanciu - Sergiu, of the ironically named www.code-purity.com (purposefully not linked), seemed to like my articles; 7 tips for every person wishing to be a programmer, and 8 tips for new programmers so much, that he decided to take them as his own (The offending content on his site is in the “Tips for Junior Programmers” article). Like all other bloggers, my site is entirely based upon content, by plagiarizing my work he, and all those who plagiarize, discourages creativity as the creators of the content are not rewarded for their hard work. Even the content itself is damaged to a degree as it is being associated with shady characters. If you have something you want to add to my article, positive or negative, feel free to reference what I have to say just give a link back to my site (like this), but don't quote my (or anybody's) article verbatim and not link back to my site. Ever.
Trends: Is it time to throw out checked exceptions?
Going through school and much of my career I would follow the orthodoxy of using checked exceptions to handle exceptional conditions. While it isn't too difficult to trace down a bug when a school project is only a small collection of 5 to 15 code files, it is an entirely different issue when it comes to enterprise level development.
Hello World!
Well this is this my first of what I hope to be many posts. My first “real” post will be up shortly, but I wanted to take a moment to talk about what I hope to accomplish with this site. Like so many before and so many after me, being a junior developer isn't always a whole lot of fun. Often you get thrown right into the mix and it is difficult to be productive member of the team. Luckily where I work I had plenty of experienced developers to learn from and they had plenty of patience to teach me the ropes.
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