This is a follow-up to my original post about cognitive traps that hinder learning and stunt professional growth. Information junk food refers to any information gathering activity that prematurely satisfies your hunger to learn and provides fleeting emotional pleasure in lieu of actual intellectual nourishment. Some information junk foods to avoid: Fattening Abstractions – There is great power in naming things, which is why it is an integral [...]
Browsing Posts published in July, 2007
I’ve been spelunking Powershell lately with Bruce Payette’s excellent book, Powershell in Action, and thought I would take a step back from some of the lower level nuances, such as dynamic type conversion and parameter binding rules, and organize my thoughts at a higher level. What is Powershell? - It is the new command line/scripting environment from [...]
