I work in a software development environment with many teams working on many projects. Over the next year I have set a goal of making those around me more passionate about the industry of software. I've started by increasing general awareness of industry news and events, encouraging team-mates to blog, hosting brown-bag (lunch'n'learn) s...
Hello everybody. I am new to this board. Since getting my BS/MS in computer science, I've been working in the industry since Jan 2003. Initially I was having a blast coding bleeding edge C++ technology at a research lab. Then, sometime, after I got married I guess, I turned into a zombie and became a test/QA droid. I tried getting...
I'm currently working for a large tech consultancy on a 12 month contract as part of my Comp Sci degree (we have to take a year out to work in industry). The kind of apps we produce are very typical 'enterpisey' kind of things. No one there has half the amount of passion I do for software, I'm starting to lose my love, I have another 6 ...
Being the one always trying to boil things down to common patterns, I'm having a hard time figuring out the best and/or recommended ways of managing all those random properties throughout an application. I am looking for some SO wisdom. What are the random properties I'm talking about? Here's a small list: favicon alt text for rando...
What is it about our profession that breeds such passionate support for our preferred IDE, OS, language, algorithm, licence, etc? Is it the (relatively) nascent stage of the craft so that the winners of the debate can potentially gain a dominant position, or is it a reflection of an innate competitiveness that is less likely to be exerc...