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I spend 10 to 30 minutes every weekday before I work on my current projects.
I learned a lot from CP and start to contribute now.
diligent hands rule....
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I just gave up and went to work for the site. Now I get paid to be on the site, although its looking for bug, nuisances, and ways to improve the user experience.
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Got a recommendation from Amazon today "Android Programming In 24 Hours!: Total Beginner's Guide For Android App Programming" - despite my aversion to books with exclamation marks or "in xxx days" in teh title, I followed the link.
£2.03 for the Kindle edition. "That's cheap," I thought "Technical books are usually loads of money!"
Then I looked a bit closer: 37 pages.
37 pages. Man, that's going to be an in depth manual!
Strangely, all the reviews are five stars...
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That fits the really novice guys that learn to use printf and think they are ultra-hackers...
So if in 37 pages you earn to program apps for android the book is gold for them.
Let's think about it... if 37 pages take 24 hours... then probably the book is extremely dense...
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So must the readers - I used "look inside" to see the contents page...
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Page 1 - 36 blah blah blah.......
Page 37 goto CodeProject.com and ask question with SEND CODEZ PLZ, there's this guy therre named Original Griff that just love to help people!
You're famous!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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Mike Hankey wrote: You're infamous!
FTFY!
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If it's anything like the cr@p available on the Windows store, it'll be 37 pages of instructions on how to buy books that teach Android programming.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ye Gods, they're everywhere![^]
I think I'll write 31 pages (+ front & end matter) on how to buy snake oil.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't forget to include a whole chapter: "Check out my other books"
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Good point. If I use lots of cover shots and synopses, I'll only have to write about 12 pages of material for each book.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Use a big font: than it's only 12 sentences.
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With a bit of MS Office clip-art on each page, twelve short sentences!
Hey, now that we've worked out the business model, we ought to do something with it.
Shall I write a book about it? It'll only take me twenty minutes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And you can get those sentences from QA answers!
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Done[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You forgot "URGNTZZZ!!!"
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My God, I'm really cr@p at this!
Fixed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I found the answer to all your questions. It's all in the Matrix.
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Superb!
I'll have the book ready for release by the end of the month!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm amazed.
Nobody has popped up to tell you that his question is better than yours, and you should look at that one...
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I'll add it to the requirements.
32: Idiotic nagging spammer.
OK, done.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It took 24 hours to write the book...
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Don't knock short books. O'Reilly publishes a number of short books in their Pocket Reference series. I've learned more from these about SQL, CSS, and other TLA's than in most of the door-stop tomes out there.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Absolutely! Very often a quick-reference, which is crammed full of short definitions of everything, is the most useful document in the world, if you already know much of what you're doing.
But 37-page books that claim to turn you into a Ruby professional or an Android developer?
Anyone with any experience in databases will know that you can't store that much information into that many sectors.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...I've had a screaming headache all day. I've taken nothing for it and it still hasn't just fixed itself.
So I just cracked the first beer for the day. I'll report back later if it has made it worse or fixed it.
Not sure if I will be able to be too scientific with any facts I provide later.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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