software – The Tory Party https://www.toryhoke.com Comics, essays, art, and heckling Sun, 21 Jan 2018 07:16:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 75387560 The Secret to Life is Programming https://www.toryhoke.com/2015/03/10/secret-life-programming/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:00:44 +0000 http://www.toryhoke.com/?p=8445 (This post created for and first appeared on Samantha Gay’s blog, February 21, 2015.) Twenty years ago I was depressed, confused, and out of ideas. Then I discovered programming. I’m not sure how it started. It helped that the family had a Tandy TRS-80 at one point, and I ran into BASIC and Oregon Trail… Continue reading The Secret to Life is Programming

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]]> 8445 JDI on How to Ask a Good Programming Question https://www.toryhoke.com/2012/04/16/jdi-on-how-to-ask-a-good-programming-question/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:47:27 +0000 https://www.toryhoke.com/?p=4002 The coworker featured in this comic has written a post about the problem with short questions posted to StackOverflow. It is haughty and good. For those that are immediately inclined to provide the complete code snippet to solve the problem, where do we draw the line? What if the question being asked would need 10… Continue reading JDI on How to Ask a Good Programming Question

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]]> 4002 AndEngine Installation: Lessons from Last Night’s Tweets https://www.toryhoke.com/2011/11/18/andengine-installation-lessons-from-last-nights-tweets/ Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:05:46 +0000 https://www.toryhoke.com/?p=3748 Y’all may have noticed from my Twittersplosion that I had a frustrating time trying to install and run the AndEngine examples. This involved 7 hours, 3 different tutorials (including 2 ones on video!) and at least 10 distinct errors requiring a stop-and-Google. At four in the morning I got the emulator to launch the example… Continue reading AndEngine Installation: Lessons from Last Night’s Tweets

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