Gone are the days of the typical geek with pencils in his pocket, fainting when a girl talks to him. We are partners and parents now too, but also programmers. Before I got married 17 hour work days were not uncommon and I still get those, our industry changes with new features added to our toolbox and we try to keep up. I come home at...
I wish to know what a programmer is, or what skills are necessary for someone to call himself a programmer. I have talked with my colleague; he told me someone who writes javascript or html isn't a programmer. I wonder why I would need to use specific programming languages, frameworks, vendor to consider myself a programmer. So often, ...
What is the cheap and good way to make a serial (RS232) programmer for AVR atMega and atTiny? There are several circuits in the Internet, but which one is better? I'd like to be able to program my controller from Linux and Windows using some standard tools. ...
My ideal position would be designing systems and programs, I love the industry and the technology but I just don't really like ONLY coding. People at my work say that nowadays you can't just be a software architect. Any insight? NOTE: I didn't say I don't like coding, I meant I don't like ONLY coding (see edit above). ...
What a Programmer should learn to become a manager without losing his programming skills? ...
Is there any measurement technique that takes into consideration not only how many artifacts were generated (i.e. lines of code, use cases, etc), but also considers the quality and effort involved? What is a good measurement that we can deploy that will not hurt the developers? Every now and then there is a client or a manager who want...
I am wondering how many programmers here are spending more than 10 hrs (on average) in front of a computer regardless what they do while they are on the computer. No programmer/gamer doesn't like using their computer at home. But I love it and my average is 11hrs/day. Hopefully I am not alone. ...
originally posted by Stefan: How many of you have had the thought of educate your partner and invite him/her to the beautiful world of programming? I once started to give my wife lessons twice a week, It was a competition between me and another programmer, we thought it would be nice to have our wives understand why we work as programm...
I've been looking to get out of my current gig (apps programmer) for a while now. Been turned down at least once by each of my top-5 interesting places to work, so I'm thinking maybe I'm going about this wrong. One of my big want-to-haves is a reasonable amount of travel. In the modern business climate, remote access seems to have bas...
Do advanced programmers read books? There is a stage where you are no longer a 'beginner', yet you still want to learn things (Actionscript is on my list, currently). I've been looking for books which do not start from the 'How to install' or 'How to configure IDE for that' phase, but which assume the reader has more knowledge and has...
Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42670/i-have-an-idea-now-what I'm not sure if is an appropriate question for Stackoverflow but since we're all programmers I think we've all have come across this problem once before and therefore I'm going to ask it anyway. Being a programmer I come up with lots of ideas for potential ap...
Hi everyone, I was just wondering about math as a programmer. I DO use math a fair bit, mainly vector math and occasionally trigonometry when I do games programming. My question: Do you consider there to be any essential math that you as a programmer must know in order to be a successful (and awesome) programmer? Mainly I have found th...
What would be the last words of particular kinds of programmers? For example, a Perl programmer: I don't have to write documentation. The source is formatted so well, I can read it later... or I'm just going to write a regular expression to find this, then I'm done... ...
Lately I have been learning of more and more programmers who think that if they were working alone, they would be faster and would deliver more quality. Usually that feeling is attached to a feeling that they do the best programming in their team and at the end of the day the idea is quite plausible. If they ARE doing the best programmin...
I'm a production director in a web design studio and we need to build a new team of developers for iPhone Apps. Can anyone help me with this? Should we get full-time or freelance people? What are the pros and cons of each? ...
I am a Junior Engineer with under a year experience, primarily as a UI developer. We have a former Lead Programmer who just got laid off who is interviewing at our company, and I am one of the people interviewing him. He has almost 25 years of experience, so obviously it will be pointless to ask him technical questions. As a junior prog...
I'm studying in a engineering and I keep hearing that software engineer does the Requirement / Design and more technical dude will do the programming job. "They" qualify programming as "translate well shaped design class into a computer language". I'm curious to know your opinion about that.. and particularly, what YOU consider you are. ...
I am 22 years old and I currently work for a small startup that does web design/development for a variety of clients. I do not have a post-secondary education. I started building websites for fun when I was about 13 years old, doing HTML markup and some graphic design. I know enough about things like CSS, JavaScript and XML to use them d...
Hey! I am web programmer and I deal with html, css, javascript, php and asp.net. Is there some good books/sites that I can use to become also a bit of a sys admin? And by sys admin I mean to have knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux/Win Networks etc. Please don't say "google is your friend" I know it is but I just want either good sites or book...
Right now, I have a deadline for a video game and they are asking me an idea for a storyline. Back in college, I used to breeze through this tasks and for me this is very very easy. Now that I'm been programming for many years now, I would like to return to that state. How do programmers like you go to into a creative state? Thanks. ...