Monthly Archives: November 2009

How Do You Decide Which Books to Buy?

By dhirschl | Published: November 30, 2009
How Do You Decide Which Books to Buy?
Being a member of Border Rewards, I tend to use the %-off coupons for books that will end up being discounted more than Amazon’s prices. For the past few weeks I had $10 in Borders Bucks that I needed to use by the end of the month. I had been sitting on it because I [...]
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5 Blogging Mistakes

By dhirschl | Published: November 26, 2009
5 Blogging Mistakes
Perhaps it’s just the Thanksgiving holiday, but recently I have been so distracted that has made it hard for me to blog. If blogging is something that you are looking to pursue, I want to make you aware of what I like to call the 5 blogging mistakes. 5 Blogging Mistakes 1. Money Cannot Be [...]
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9 Useful Websites for Thematic Child Theme Development

By dhirschl | Published: November 23, 2009
You’ve may have noticed a design change here at RepeatGeek, if you’ve visited before. I have been exploring different WordPress frameworks to build my website around and I finally decided upon Thematic. My decision to go with Thematic was that it is extensible, stable, SEO optimized, easily configurable and most importantly FREE. In developing my [...]
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What I’ve Learned from Teaching Programming

By dhirschl | Published: November 19, 2009
What I’ve Learned from Teaching Programming
I am not a teacher, professor, trainer, etc. but I recently was afforded the opportunity to teach programming to my co-workers. At work we started doing more and more development in .NET. I previously acquired skills in .NET from a previous employer. My co-workers had minimal exposure to .NET and object-oriented programming. My boss approached [...]
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6 Books Every Programmer Should Own

By dhirschl | Published: November 16, 2009
6 Books Every Programmer Should Own
I’ve seen many lists about the best programming books and I am sure there are a lot of books that are specific to a programming knowledge or technology – that I have not included in my list. The books I have chosen are those that are meant to inspire, increase productivity and improve your programming [...]
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How to Enter Standard Input in Xcode Debugger Console

By dhirschl | Published: November 12, 2009
How to Enter Standard Input in Xcode Debugger Console
I was having an issue when I ran a program in Xcode Debugger Console that utilized scanf() the program would just hang. The program would work correctly when run directly from the Terminal. The only solutions that I could find online were to install a previous version of Xcode. Solution When entering standard input, you [...]
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Top 5 Things that are Important to Me as a Programmer

By dhirschl | Published: November 9, 2009
Top 5 Things that are Important to Me as a Programmer
No matter what your field of work, we all have areas where we want to succeed. I’ve tried to identify the top 5 things that are important to me in life. These are areas of my life where I want to be successful. 5. Professional Development (Non-Technical) As a programmer, not everything is technical all [...]
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Is Troubleshooting an Art or Science?

By dhirschl | Published: November 5, 2009
Is Troubleshooting an Art or Science?
“What do I always say? Anyone can cook.” I am often reminded of this quote from Disney Pixar’s Ratatouille when I think about troubleshooting. But is it true that anyone can troubleshoot computer problems or debug code? The Troubleshooting Process Much like cooking, troubleshooting follows a simple recipe that anyone can follow. Troubleshooting can be [...]
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How to Choose your Next Domain with Visual Thesaurus

By dhirschl | Published: November 2, 2009
How to Choose your Next Domain with Visual Thesaurus
You have an idea for a blog or a website but how do you go about choosing the right domain name with the highest possible impact? The Rules When it came to choosing my domain name for this website, there were a few things I was looking for - The name had to be short [...]
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