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Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood has, in two consecutive posts, highlighted my reasons for my two big switches of late, both of which were from home-grown solutions to something that works straight out of the box with no assembly required.
In On Frameworkitis, he passes on the cautionary tale of a programmer who felt so compelled to re-write his blogging engine when using it that he didn’t successfully post for two and a half years. Then, in Building and Overclocking a Core 2 Duo System, Jeff describes his own latest annual PC rebuild, including multiple tweak-verify passes to determine the highest safe overclock settings for his new CPU.
I love tinkering, but I’m sick of it being a productivity boat-anchor. Hence, my recent moves to WordPress and a Mac Pro.
