Jul 17
A creed is a statement of belief or faith often recited as part of a religious service or organizational gathering. The word "creed" derives from the Latin credo (I believe) or credimus (we believe). Perhaps the oldest is Apostle's Creed cited in Christianity. However, the Rifleman's Creed is arguably the most famous, made popular by the Stanley Kubrick war movie "Full Metal Jacket" (warning: language). This has inspired me (with tongue planted firmly in cheek) to write a creed for our noble profession of software development.
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May 07
It's widely accepted in the software industry that some programmers are much more productive than others. Many experts cite an order-of-magnitude productivity difference between the "best" and "average" programmers.
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Popularity: 15% [?]
Tags: Productivity
May 06
How can you tell when a programmer has had sex?
When he's washing the pepper spray out of his eyes.
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Two bytes meet. The first byte asks, "Are you ill?"
The second byte replies, "No, just feeling a bit off."
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Apr 30
For many developers, the normal Google search engine is all they need to find source code on the Web to solve a particular programming problem. But Google doesn't understand code, so dedicated code search engines have emerged to bring code search to a new level.
Following is a list of all known code search engines and the tagline and "About" information from the site. Please comment if you know of other code search engines, as I will keep this list updated.
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Apr 25
This is the first in what will be a series of articles, each highlighting an obscure programming language.
There are over 2700 languages spoken on Earth. And while there are only about a dozen popular programming languages, there are over 400 known programming languages, many of which you can see in this extensive "Hello World" collection.
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Apr 21
I was reading an article about the death of actor Charlton Heston, most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's epic movie, "The Ten Commandments." That gave me the idea to write a "Programmer's 10 Commandments," but a quick perusal of Google showed that many people have already been there, done that.
So instead, here is a bunch of "Commandments for Programmers":
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Apr 12
In response to my original article, "101 Great Computer Programming Quotes," José M. Aguilar doubled the fun with "101 More Great Computer Quotes," which was translated, edited and republished here by Timm Martin (and Google Translator) with permission from Mr. Aguilar.
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Apr 09
"Hello, Mr. Consumer, we offer amazing new widget software that will save you time and money! It can do X, Y, and Z. You can download and install it from our website. Oh, and by the way, you need .NET 3.5. What's that? It's a 200MB separate download from Microsoft that takes an hour to install and… Hello? Hello? Mr. Consumer?"
Welcome to my world as a commercial software developer who uses Microsoft .NET. Continue reading »
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Tags: .NET, Microsoft-.NET
Mar 17
From xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
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