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  • codepad a great convenience

    Posted May 14, 2010 - 1:11 pm

    codepad.org lets you run code in a dozen leading languages, without any local installation.

  • SVG is a good scratchpad for programmers

    Posted May 13, 2010 - 2:03 pm

    While much coverage of SVG focuses on weighty matters that involve committees, large contracts, or strategic conquest, SVG is also fun--and useful!

  • Career advice: Making your mark in software programming

    Posted April 13, 2010 - 8:05 am

    One of the best ways to raise your professional profile is to take the time to measure what you're doing. Did your group upgrade some software to make a program module run twice as fast as before? Let people know.

  • Estimating programming time

    Posted February 9, 2010 - 8:50 am

    Accurately estimating programming time is a process of defining limitations -- experience, domain knowledge, speed vs. quality. Expect it to take 6 months before your team is estimating close to actuals.

  • Is Programming a Lucrative Profession?

    Posted January 23, 2010 - 5:57 pm

    Software development is growing up, and that's not entirely a good thing.

  • How Microsoft Made PHP Suck Less on Windows

    Posted July 29, 2009 - 7:50 pm

    Windows might be a popular platform for running certain kinds of Web applications. But too many developers have been burnt by trying to deploy PHP applications on a Windows server. Microsoft is aiming to change that. In fact, while you weren't looking, they already made some improvements.

  • Pre-coding ritual

    Posted May 29, 2009 - 11:08 am

    Make way for the sacrificial lamb.

  • Multi-tasking the project plan

    Posted February 2, 2009 - 10:54 am

    I had one of those weird moments recently where I made an analogy between two things that I have never before analogized. Namely, multi-tasking operating systems and project planning. I will get back to that in a moment but first, I have a possible reason why weird analogies are popping in my head that I would like to spend a minute on.

  • Knowing Java is not knowing much

    Posted September 27, 2008 - 12:03 pm

    Knowing Java is not knowing much. Knowing C is not knowing much. Same for Javascript ECMA 262. The same is true for many other languages. Not all of them, but many of them.

  • Building roads versus building skyscrapers

    Posted June 29, 2008 - 9:50 pm

    What do you do for a living? If you answered "I am a programmer", or , "I am an application designer" or "I am an IT architect" or "I am an engineer" or "I am a tester" I would reply "Me too." How odd. How can I be all of those things? You are thinking the same thing I suspect. Maybe you too do all of the above too - and more? How odd!
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