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Don’t Write These Words

April 22, 2009

In my college-going days, one of my Software Engineering courses had a professor who put a sound deal of emphasis on the documentation side of programming — the written description of the solution to the problem our software was trying to solve. For a wannabe English minor with a focus in grammar like [...]

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A Week’s Worth Of 50-Word Posts

November 19, 2008

It’s tough when you know you’re not going to allow for the necessary word count to fully explain a thought or idea, but it’s a fun challenge to say as much as possible, as clearly as possible, in a limited space.  The most attractive piece being the lack of pressure to completely fill the empty [...]

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Keeping It Real…Short

November 10, 2008

I’m thinking I’ll do this all week, even though the suggestion to post a "50-word-or-less blog entry " was a one-time deal.  I’m always going on about brevity and being concise yet I wander and ramble when I write, so this is a good exercise — an exercise in editing, eliminating wordiness.

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