Category Archives: Programming

Useful tips on programming ideas, paradigms, and idioms.

Zombie Code

In this conversation tweet snippet I rant about dead code when someone noted that in a Murphy’s Law sort of way, you don’t need dead code until you delete it. Thank goodness for version control systems.
Zombie Code

@techknow: It is a dead end maintaining dead code, unused, and unreachable code.
@archiloque There is something schrödingerian about [...]

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Top Worst Java Errors

I’ve had my fair share of Java bugs. There is a stage in a programmer’s career that he or she either knows that they rather manage a convenience store or that they can debug common Java errors just by the way the code smells. Here are my list of worst common Java bugs [...]

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Retweet February 2010

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Software Development

Androids dream of [...]

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Retweet January 2010

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Software Development

If your code [...]

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TechKnow Year In Review 2009

It is that time of year where we reflect on the accomplishments of the passing year and look forward to the one to come. Here is a window into the past year in technology through this year’s popular posts on TechKnow Juixe.
Top Favorites

Laws of Source Code and Software Development
Repetative Recursion
Technology and Politics
Being a Better Rails [...]

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Retweet 2009

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of tweets and rants from 2009. I started collecting and organizing programming related tweets into blogs posts early in the year. If you want to follow the [...]

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