I’m trying the polyphasic sleep schedule. Read about the experiment here. If you wonder what polyphasic sleep is, there are a number of resources that explain it better than I can.

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One of my absolute favourite communicative refactoring is extracting a comparison to a method. Let me give you an example:
[csharp]if (activity.GetChanges() != null)[/csharp]
Instead, you could write:
[csharp]if (HasChanged(activity))[/csharp]
This gives me a couple of benefits. First, I don’t have to remember that activity has a GetChanges method that returns null when nothing has changed. This might not [...]

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I was trying out Technorati Search, searching shamelessly for my own name, when I ran into this blog post. It’s a chinese translation of an article I wrote years ago.
It was a first - getting translated to chinese.

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In my last post I talked about how important it is to have good communication between developers in a team. In this post, I’ll talk about how you can use code as a tool for communication.
Communicating well is hard even when the team is sitting nearby, and can just stand up and walk over to [...]

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