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15 Jun 2008

Is coding masculine or feminine?

With all the gender wars going on in the world, and the workplace slowly shifting into a more politically correct one, with ‘person’ replacing man, coding seems to be the next target on the list of these warriors. I read a blogpost today which claims... (posted on 15 Jun 2008 by Green & White)

23 May 2008

Blogging horror

Alastair Rankine: “In a recent podcast, Atwood [of Coding Horror] disclosed recently that he had never learned C, one of my developer essentials. To me, this revelation is a profound hit to his credibility; it is like finding out that the chef who cooked... (posted on 23 May 2008 by ckunte.com)

22 May 2008

Get Firebug Extension for Firefox 3; Plays Nicely with Gmail

The Firebug team today released Firebug 1.2 - an update that makes this very useful Firefox extension compatible with Firefox 3. Firebug 1.2 is no longer enabled by default for every website and thus you won’t see a warning message in Gmail saying... (posted on 22 May 2008 by Digital Inspiration)

19 May 2008

Destroy annoying bugs part 1: FindBugs and PMD doing good work cheaply

Finding bugs in your code can be quite nasty—especially if you don’t know where to look. However, finding bugs automatically does not require astronaut training. I think it’s time to leave that “pleasure” to free (as in freedom) automatic static code... (posted on 19 May 2008 by Free Software Magazine)

16 May 2008

Chapter 2: Project management and the GNU coding standards

In Chapter 1, I gave a brief overview of the Autotools and some of the resources that are currently available to help reduce the learning curve. In this chapter, we’re going to step back a little and examine project organization techniques that are... (posted on 16 May 2008 by Free Software Magazine)

14 May 2008

Why manage? when you can code!

When you move around in various software development organizations and talk to people, you hear one common statement. Coding is the most important task that we do! Everything else, whether it be testing or documentation or even talking with co-workers is... (posted on 14 May 2008 by Green & White)

2 May 2008

Great Computing Forums

I’ve just become a moderator at a new, upcoming forum called Coding Under Ground. Its going to grow into a great forum with topics in Programming, Computers, Databases and more. Head on over to get in before the rush. (posted on 2 May 2008 by The Computer Zone)

28 Mar 2008

Comments in a scrollbar

CSS code to put a scrollbar in your comments section. Question: Here’s a question from Doran - Visitors of my MySpace profile left me trillions of comments, and those are messing up my layout. I would like to put my comments in a scrollbar. Can you... (posted on 28 Mar 2008 by A Virtual Exit)

18 Mar 2008

Software Code Commenting

Reg Developer has an interesting discussion this morning in an article by Matt Stephens: “Sweet, sweet smell of comments in code?“. The discussion talks about whether comments in code are a good thing or a bad thing. Personally, I am a fan of comments... (posted on 18 Mar 2008 by Jason Slater Weblog)

10 Mar 2008

My Mom Is Not Going To Read This Code

Somehow a lot of software professionals believe that my Mom will read this code. Or at least they want me to document it such that even she could read it. Why don’t they see the problems? There are loads of them. You are increasing body of text in the... (posted on 10 Mar 2008 by iface thoughts)

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