The last couple of months we have made some nice progress on our app. It's got a cool name, "Local Linguist", and it's had a facelift and a workover by some UI guys: Each screen is much simplier and it will also include a section for listening to audio and...
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Today I came across a brilliant explanation of c#'s await keyword. I've been trying to figure it out for a couple of weeks now and every time I read it the explanation gets too complicated too quickly. The essential problem is as follows: Marking a method as Async doesn't make...
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Next weekend I'll be talking at DDD Melbourne on "How to be the best programmer in the word". This will be my first full length talk at a conference so I'm excited, nervous and happy all at the same time!
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For the past couple of weeks I have been developing a mobile app for Livru Timor in association with Rhok Australia. The basic problem that we are trying to solve is translating some childrens books into a bunch of different languages. Sounds simple right? Well the main issue is that...
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So you’ve been working as a programmer for a couple of years, and you want to become a good programmer. But not just a good programmer, you want to be a GREAT programmer. You want to paint with ALL the colors. Hell, you want to paint with all the dimensions....
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