Programmer’s Paradox

If you read way too many blogs to be healthy, as I do, then there is no doubt you’ve come across the debate concerning computer science degrees.
Chris Ammerman has a post that nicely summarizes the debate while linking to all the major blog posts on the topic and then provides his own thoughts. You’ll [...]

Previously, I wrote a post advocating that programmers sign their work.
I accidentally left out a good reason to sign your work. Maybe it was implied in my previous post, it it wasn’t until I read about Jens leaving Apple that it hit me.
Individuality
Signing your work instantly makes it individual. Even if you write [...]

You knew that this series wouldn’t be taking a hiatus for too long.
I’m just going to quote Kevin for today’s insanity. In fact, I’m just ripping his entire post, because it’s short and to the point. I’m sure he won’t mind, since I’m the coworker he’s talking about, and I’m linking back to [...]

Today at work the issue of refactoring some code came up. I was given the green light to refactor it so long as I thought I could do it relatively quickly, in a half day or so. This code isn’t the worst code in the application, but it certainly isn’t winning any beauty [...]

REPL: noun
Read-Eval-Print-Loop: an interactive top level or shell; a simple, interactive computer programming environment.
That definition was shamelessly adapted from the wikpedia article.
Floating around the web lately, there has been a lot of debate about whether Java should or should not be the first programming language taught to someone. It was started by [...]