tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post7467037970590594983..comments2024-03-07T03:02:45.934-08:00Comments on SQL Server Code,Tips and Tricks, Performance Tuning: Become a Better Developer... in 6 monthsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post-85613637234274782192007-07-25T12:42:00.000-07:002007-07-25T12:42:00.000-07:00I updated my progress here Becoming A Better Progr...I updated my progress here <A HREF="http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2007/07/becoming-better-programmer-in-6-months.html" REL="nofollow">Becoming A Better Programmer In 6 Months: The First 10 days</A>Denishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745938552201273794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post-66105565321816778542007-07-21T01:48:00.000-07:002007-07-21T01:48:00.000-07:00Hey Buddy, Thats a great list you have!And a great...Hey Buddy, <BR/>Thats a great list you have!<BR/><BR/>And a great idea to be a better programmer in next 6 months! I am gonna steal this idea from you and try it out myself!!!<BR/><BR/>Call it coincidence, as I am typing this, I am having Getting things done on my desk!! <BR/><BR/>And my read list goes like this:<BR/>1. SQL Tuning by Dan Tow<BR/>2. Getting Things done by David Allen<BR/>3. SQL Cookbook<BR/>4. The datawarehouse ETL toolkit by Ralph Kimball. <BR/><BR/>By the way, if you like reading a lot, try Good to Great by Jim Collins, Winning by Jack Welch, First things first by Stephen Covey (this one is on Time management and is similar to Getting things done)... <BR/><BR/>They are some favorites of mine!!<BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/>Prem<BR/><BR/>http://biexplorer.blogspot.com/Prem Sagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08236396632137254843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post-55404560383482900372007-07-17T21:55:00.000-07:002007-07-17T21:55:00.000-07:00You have a couple of nice books on your reading li...You have a couple of nice books on your reading list - some of which I need to read. I would maybe recommend one or two other books as well.<BR/><BR/>Programming Pearls - Bentley<BR/>Coder To Developer - Gunderloy<BR/>Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt & Thomas (I know you already have one of his books on this list and anonymous recommended another but, I enjoyed it)<BR/><BR/>But as for me... I just graduated from school so priority number one is simply to code as much as you can (I find that there is somewhat of a disconnect between an academic setting and the real word).<BR/><BR/>The only other thing I would throw in to the list is learn a new framework or two. There are a number of frameworks out there that are worth while learning and a great way of doing some of this is to incorporate them in to new projects. <BR/><BR/>Good luck - nice post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post-76720631759442666852007-07-17T02:49:00.000-07:002007-07-17T02:49:00.000-07:00Justice, yes I did borrow this from your page. Alt...Justice, yes I did borrow this from your page. Although I am not as ambitious as you with 1 book a week I think this is more manageable for me. BTW your bio is great<BR/><BR/>DenisDenishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745938552201273794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post-48467332095805650152007-07-17T02:46:00.000-07:002007-07-17T02:46:00.000-07:00>>If you just "translate your code into a new lang...>>If you just "translate your code into a new language", you won't learn a new language, you'll just learn new syntax.<BR/><BR/>I guess I wasn't that clear. What I meant to say is something like this: I don't have to waste time figuring out what should happen when a user clicks on button x or enters data in input box y, this won't change, I only have to worry about how to code that in the new language. And yes I will use the ideoms of the new language of course.Denishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745938552201273794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post-53889296230452798512007-07-17T02:02:00.000-07:002007-07-17T02:02:00.000-07:00If you just "translate your code into a new langua...If you just "translate your code into a new language", you won't learn a new language, you'll just learn new syntax. ("A Fortran programmer can program Fortran in any language") If you really want to learn a new language, don't try to translate old code and old ideoms into the new language. Learn the ideoms of the new language, hopefully you can translate the useful ones back to your own language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post-33793207289470350182007-07-16T22:51:00.000-07:002007-07-16T22:51:00.000-07:00Wow, this goal looks familiar! ;)Best of luck wit...Wow, this goal looks familiar! ;)<BR/><BR/>Best of luck with it. I know you will do well!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16771259.post-31999547415714855432007-07-16T09:43:00.000-07:002007-07-16T09:43:00.000-07:00For the language book I would suggest "Programming...For the language book I would suggest "Programming Ruby: the Pragmatic Programmer's guide" by Dave Thomas. One of the best language learning books out there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com