devinsblog » Tips http://devinsblog.com a tech journal Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:36:24 +0000 en hourly 1 The absolute best way to improve your coding skills! http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/25/the-absolute-best-way-to-improve-your-coding-skills/ http://devinsblog.com/2010/02/25/the-absolute-best-way-to-improve-your-coding-skills/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:08:41 +0000 devin http://devinsblog.com/?p=1827

The absolute best way to improve your coding skills is to read the absolute best advanced MVVM book EVAR!

If you’re programming WPF or Silverlight, don’t pass up the opportunity to give Advanced MVVM a read. Written by one of the best WPF developers in the known universe, it’s sure to be useful and worth the mere pennies that he’s charging for this gem.

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Before I copied it however, I was going to remove all the .DS files from his file system (he uses with his Mac) so that there wouldn’t be any copy issues with our FAT hard drives (I have Finder show all the hidden files so it becomes an issue).  So I ran the command in Terminal to remove the .DS files.  Done.

Then I got to the file transfer and everything seemed to work great… except.. it went REALLY fast.  I copied over his whole folder structure in seconds.  That can’t be right.  So I started opening up the folders to make sure the files were there…

And we both slowly started coming to the realization that I just deleted everything on his drive.  All 350 GB of it.

OOPS!

I went back and checked the command that I used in Terminal and noticed that I missed the “-name” part of the command.  Damn.

How ironic that I buy him a hard drive for him to back up all his stuff on, then I invite him over and delete all of it!

I bought him dinner.  That’s how you deal with data loss.  Sorry man.

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Pillow case + packing peanuts + bubble wrap = no bueno.  Incase sleeve = bliss.Screen shot 2009-12-10 at 12.13.01 AM

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