habits

What are the best habits of highly effective programmers?

I guess that many of you have read 7 habits of highly effective people. They're great, but still too general. Can you suggest some good habits of a highly effective programmer? The habits that make you more productive in work? Faster in learning? ...

what does programmer do while waiting the end of Compile

Waiting for the end of compile is extremely boring. So I used to do Stackoverflow and so on.. What do you usually do ? and sorry about my poor English ...

CSS: Explicitly declaring position, padding, margin, and overflow for every item?

I've been working for a guy whose been teaching me css. I made a website based on his designs which I'm pretty proud of, but he got back to me saying that I need to explicitly declare the padding, margin, position, and overflow (specifically every item should have "overflow:hidden") on every item. Is there any basis to this at all? Is th...

Is placement and format of copyright statement relevant?

Every software I have seen, contain copyright statement at the beginning of a file and takes pretty much lines of comment. Therefore you have to scroll down to see the code, which is a bit annoying, especially when code itself is very short. I think that it would be nicer to keep copyright statement at the bottom of a file and join all ...

How to get rid of bad typing habits?

Hi, I type on a keyboard for more than 15 years and during that time I developed my own system. I use about 8 of my fingers 80% of the time, but I haven’t trained myself to use a proper touch-typist finger layout. E.g. I use my forefinger a lot where I could use other fingers for the keys instead and don’t move my fingers so much other ...