How to be an Intermediate Programmer

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Link to Episode 39's Full Show Noteshttp://www.codingblocks.net/episode39

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This Episode's SurveySuggested by: https://twitter.com/CatcheNameHere/status/700507429390274560

Princess rap battle: GALADRIEL vs LEIAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL52R7m8b7w

How to be an Intermediate Programmer Personal Skills

• How to Stay Motivatedhttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/01-How%20to%20Stay%20Motivated.md
• How to be Widely Trustedhttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/02-How%20to%20be%20Widely%20Trusted.md
• How to Tradeoff Time vs Spacehttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/03-How%20to%20Tradeoff%20Time%20vs%20Space.md
• How to Stress Testhttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/04-How%20to%20Stress%20Test.md
• How to Balance Brevity vs Abstractionhttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/05-How%20to%20Balance%20Brevity%20and%20Abstraction.md

  Shout out to our friend Will - https://twitter.com/iamwillmadison

• How to Learn New Skillshttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/06-How%20to%20Learn%20New%20Skills.md
• Learn to Typehttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/07-Learn%20to%20Type.md
• How to Do Integration Testinghttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/08-How%20to%20Do%20Integration%20Testing.md
• Communication Languageshttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/09-Communication%20Languages.md
• Heavy Toolshttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/10-Heavy%20Tools.md
• How to Analyze Datahttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Personal-Skills/11-How%20to%20analyze%20data.md

Team Skills

• How to Manage Development Timehttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Team-Skills/01-How%20to%20Manage%20Development%20Time.md
• How to Manage Third Party Software Riskshttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Team-Skills/02-How%20to%20Manage%20Third-Party%20Software%20Risks.md
• How to Manage Consultantshttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Team-Skills/03-How%20to%20Manage%20Consultants.md
• How to Communicate the Right Amounthttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Team-Skills/04-How%20to%20Communicate%20the%20Right%20Amount.md
• How to Disagree Honestly and Get Away with ithttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Team-Skills/05-How%20to%20Disagree%20Honestly%20and%20Get%20Away%20with%20It.md

Judgement

• How to Tradeoff Quality Against Development Timehttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Judgment/01-How%20to%20Tradeoff%20Quality%20Against%20Development%20Time.md
• How to Manage Software System Dependencehttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Judgment/02-How%20to%20Manage%20Software%20System%20Dependence.md
• How to Decide if Software is too Immaturehttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Judgment/03-How%20to%20Decide%20if%20Software%20is%20Too%20Immature.md
• How to Make a Buy vs Build Decisionhttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Judgment/04-How%20to%20Make%20a%20Buy%20vs%20Build%20Decision.md
• How to Grow Professionallyhttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Judgment/05-How%20to%20Grow%20Professionally.md
• How to Evaluate Intervieweeshttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Judgment/06-How%20to%20Evaluate%20Interviewees.md
• How to Know when to apply Fancy Computer Sciencehttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Judgment/07-How%20to%20Know%20When%20to%20Apply%20Fancy%20Computer%20Science.md
• How to Talk to Engineershttps://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/2-Intermediate/Judgment/08-How%20to%20Talk%20to%20Non-Engineers.md

Resources We Like

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary by Robert L ReadMake a Pull Request to get your thoughts in here:https://github.com/RobertLRead/HowToBeAProgrammerOr buy your copy here from Amazon:http://amzn.to/1WzbIxs

Succinctness is Power - Paul Grahamhttp://www.paulgraham.com/power.html

You Don't Know JShttps://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/README.md

Want to know how fast you type?http://www.typingtest.com/

Allen's Typing Speed on the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic

Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard

http://www.typingtest.com/result.html?acc=100&nwpm=90&gwpm=90&ncpm=452&gcpm=452&dur=60&time=60&chksum=45213&unit=wpm&kh=998&td=null&err=0&hits=452

specflow - Binding business requirements to .NET codehttp://www.specflow.org/

Tips for this Episode

Allen Underwood: Execution plan for a running query in Microsoft SQL ServerPreface: You can click a button in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to see the execution plan of a query to identify any performance problems. The biggest issue with this is that if there's a query that NEVER returns, or takes an insanely long time to return, then you're stuck waiting for the query to finish. This tip shows you how to find the ACTUAL (not estimated) query plan of the query that is actively running:

How To:

EXEC sp_who2 'active' -- Find the SPID of the query you're running DECLARE @spid INT = 123 -- From above SELECT EQP.query_plan, * FROM sys.dm_exec_requests AS ER CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(ER.plan_handle) AS EQP WHERE ER.session_id = @spid

Once that bottom query runs, you'll be provided a link in the results grid that you can click to open up the graphical execution plan.

Michael Outlaw: Have Git ignore changes you make to a specific file like you didn't make the changes, but still have it be part of the tracked files in Git.Preface: Let's say you have a connection string configuration file that you change to point to your local database. That config file needs to be tracked in Git, but you don't want your changes to accidentally get committed and pushed up to the remote repo, then this command is for you.

How To:

git update-index /path/to/file --assume-unchanged

Joe Zack: Life Tip - Pay attention to the warnings in your IDE. It's easy to get used to seeing several warnings and ignoring them because they're not errors. Eventually a new one that actually matters will show up and by ignoring it, you could be creating heartache for yourself. If you can, resolve the warnings that are currently showing up so that if a new one surfaces, it'll jump out at you like a sore thumb.