The title of the article is ’10 ways to improve your programming skills’.
Copypasta will get things done faster, but it will not improve your skill as
a programmer

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Cavin Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:

> hahahahahahahaahaha - rotfl
>
> When you make a change to an open source product, it might be useful only
> to you,
> if its useful to other people, then you can submit the module as an addon
>
> However, if you modify the core, you have to take another route, by
> contacting the Lead developer's on your suggested hack, The lead developer
> of the OSS project can decide to accept the change and include in another
> version, it can also be rejected
>
> Its very easy to accept the modifications, if you identify a security
> vulnerability, however if its a feature/workflow, thats another issue
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Sat, 9/3/11, Jason Tumusiime <[email protected]>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jason Tumusiime <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Improve your programming skills
> To: "Uganda Linux User Group" <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, September 3, 2011, 2:46 PM
>
>
> I think I'm really being misunderstood here. Like i pointed out before, the
> article is about
> "How to improve YOUR (MY) programming skills".
> not about, software specifications or users requirements or how bad or good
> open source
> stuff is.
>
> We should realize computer programming and automatic computation dates way
> before
> software engineering or whatever of its conceptual idiosyncrasies. Thus its
> presence is a
> different consequence/ calling and not users needs. Like most user comments
> emphasized,
> however, the article is not about  production but rather learning/
> education.
>
> So if i may ask; When you customized that Drupal or open atrium to the
> users requirements
> did you distribute the solution as an open source improvement? I'm missing
> the point here.
> Most distributed software should be abstracted and can't meet all user
> specifics. However,
> if it is flawed, then it needs to fixed and redistributed as an upgrade,
> fix or whatever
>
> May be one question you need to ask is: What is implied by improved or even
> Good programming
> skills.
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