Poems

June 3rd, 2011 by Anna

For your enjoyment, I occasionally express my opinions in poems.

From Theory to Practice

2013-03-27

You learn so much from all these sources,

From blogs and books and online courses.

But don’t forget that every week

You need to practice your technique.

For you will not become a pro

Merely by watching others go.

Allow yourself to try and fail

And in the end, you will prevail.

Open Source Contributions

2012-10-26

When one’s spare time is a donation

To projects for the good of all,

Please don’t destroy their motivation

With comments lousy and dull.

Instead, salute their contribution,

Perhaps propose a helping hand,

Give them advice and find solutions

To make community more grand.

Database Index

2012-02-21

There is an index on each field

And all selects take long to yield.

Try finding which ones you need,

Remove the rest and feel the speed.

n00b

2011-06-16

Did you forget

That you were once

A novice dev

Without stance?

These youngers devs

Please don’t offend.

Help them evolve,

Don’t condescend.

Code Review

2011-06-15

Your large commits to the codebase

Are very hard for me to trace.

To smaller changes you must break

This code that makes my brain ache.

TDD

2011-06-14

Before you code

You better test,

So that on weekends

You may rest.

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5 comments on this post.

  1. Sheeri Cabral:

    February 21st, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    I love these! Someone showed me the Feb 21st one (today’s) because I’m a MySQL DBA, and the funny thing is that just today I recorded this week’s OurSQL podcast (http://www.oursql.com) and included a section on pt-index-usage – http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.0/pt-index-usage.html – a tool that allows you to figure out which indexes are actually used, given logs.

    (hope that helps! And keep the poems coming! Note that the podcast itself won’t be published until Friday, we record on Tuesdays and publish on Fridays, and our sound editor works his magic on the days in between.)

  2. Anna:

    February 22nd, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    Hey Sheery! Long time no see. Thanks for this tool. I didn’t know that it existed. I always relied on my sense of smell for that, but it requires a lot more effort. I’ll try this out and give you some feedback.

  3. Shiv:

    December 17th, 2012 at 12:15 am

    Awesome!!!!! Love these poems!!!

  4. Anurag Aeron:

    March 22nd, 2013 at 2:16 pm

    Excellent!! Especially the open source one… because I want to perform some task using PHP on GeoServer and PostGIS. But still not got success.

  5. Johny Patera:

    March 23rd, 2013 at 10:55 pm

    Wau, TDD one is cool ;o)

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