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10 Aug 2013
When You're New to a Codebase
Andrew Pontious covers with Wolf Rentzsch three aspects of learning the source code of an unfamiliar project: teaching someone else your codebase, learning a new codebase yourself, and the extra steps Andrew takes.
Links:
- Testing Whether You Believe in Fairies « Edge Cases
- WWDC 2013 Session 224 Designing Code for Performance
- If You’re a File System Geek « Edge Cases
- matt_connolly tweet: “Don’t shout at your servers. @rentzsch @edgecasesshow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4”
- Shouting in the Datacenter « YouTube
- Putting Your Scent on the Code « Edge Cases
- Victoria Wang (violasong) tweet: ““As Rumsfeld would say, it’s a *known* suspense. But seriously, let’s not talk about Rumsfeld anymore” - @edgecasesshow preshow”
- German for Beginners: Lesson 16 - kennen und wissen - How to say ‘know’ in German « About.com
- Maintenance and the Cocoa Slide « Edge Cases
- Rectangles on a String « Edge Cases
- A Little Slice of Windows in My IDE « Edge Cases
- You Can’t Run a Script to Test Feel « Edge Cases
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I « Joel on Software
Rejected Episode Titles:
- I’ll Just Punch in the Number
- This Video Link Will Probably Break
- “I’m Volunteering You.” “Thanks!”
- I’m Skeptical, There, as in So Many Other Things
- Nobody Really Wants That, Nobody Cares
- To Know vs. Be Familiar With
- If You Don’t Want to Sound like the Dude
- You Won’t Have Made an Internal Model
- Dig the Ruts in Your Own Mind
- Way to Refer to Yourself!
- Our Flashback Episode
- Getting Two Different Witnesses to a Crime
- Special Cases Unit
- Giant Unreadable Morass of Lines
- It’s Like You’re Looking Inside My App, Man
- This Is Definitely Breaking a Record
- A Write-Only Medium
- The Seatbelt Analogy
- What Is All This Crap?
- Then You See This Gnarled Code
- I Take Copious Notes
- Find Your Go-To People
- Don’t Get Discouraged
- Be Prepared for the Roller Coaster
- You May Be the Person on Both Ends of the Stick
- They’re Useful for the Times They’re Useful For, and That’s Fine
- I Have a Text File, like You
- My Cache-to-Hit Ratio There Is Pretty Low