Effective Code
3 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -A podcast for developers, exploring the strategies and tools needed to make effective code related decisions and to become more productive by focusing on the essentials.
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Linux groups explained
October 31, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 6.15 MBToday we'll be expanding on the subject of groups (user groups) in Linux. The aim is to provide you with better intuition on how they work, and how we can use them in particular situations. We'll also briefly discuss the relationship between groups and file permissions and how we might limit their privileges. In addition we'll be covering some of the technicalities, such as creating new groups and adding users to them. But, we'll mainly focus on improving our understanding of groups in gener...
Writing good code comments
October 22, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.79 MBToday we will be taking a look into the comprehensive subject of code comments. Specifically uncovering the characteristics of what is considered, good or bad comments. In addition, we will discuss the two main types and the general rules that applies to each. Table of contents: Introduction The overall idea behind comments The two main types of comments Interface comments Implementation comments Listing a users groups The two main characteristics of bad comments They repeat the cod...
Vertical navigation in Vim
October 16, 2021 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.01 MBKnowing how to effectively navigate code in a vertical direction can aid your pursuit of becoming more productive. Like most things, Vim provides us with an abundance of different ways to transverse our files vertically, and today we will be sharing some of our favorite ways to vertically navigate code inside of Vim. Table of contents: Introduction Scrolling the window Relative line numbers Making use of marks Location lists Common vertical motions Article Link: Vertical navigation i...