Do you ever face the problem that there are a bunch of programmers in your organization that you met at the coffee machine one day, but you have no idea what the heck they're up to? Are you ever faced with a problem you're pretty certain someone in your company has solved before, but you don't know who, and how to find out? These are ...
I am always misunderstood by my non-technical boss. Its frustrating that they would think that a programmer isn't working when he's not in front of the computer typing code.... or even when in front of the computer and has his browser on, reading about new programming stuff. It got to the point where I was told I was unproductive even ...
I have an issue at my day job where management decided long ago that they wouldn't hire dedicated IT personnel. All duties of an IT person is done by my programming staff no matter how small (changing printer toner for example) or how busy the programming team is with client work. I've tried all sorts of tactics to convince them this i...
Duplicate of: Making the perfect programming language Have you ever implemented a programming language? When is it reasonable to create my own programming language? Creating a Mobile Programming Language How to write a programming language ? Learning to write a compiler How to implement my own programming language on JVM Can anyone d...
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? ...
I mean, next year from now on. Technologies always change. As programmers, we have to always learn new ones. What technologies you've planned to learn? You'll learn it on demand or just because you like it? Your answers will be very valuable to new programmers (like me) to orient ourselves what to learn. EDIT: please focus on techno...
I've been working with C and C# for ages, I consider myself a "pretty good" programmer, but as has been pointed out many times, programming is only a small facet of software engineering and development. I'm the sole coder for my department but it looks like that is going to begin to change, what I would like to know from the Stackoverfl...
Hello, I know this is not exactly programming related, but wondering how do you go about the whole appraisal formality? I would like to know what questions are apt to be asked to a programmer in a self-appraisal form? Should I also give them a performance review also? How do I go about the whole process with the programmers in mind? I ...
Hello, let me ask your opinion. I'm 25 now, living in Germany. I started with QBASIC, did some Java in Highschool, and after School I created some Websites in PHP. Now, because my Company is Microsoft Gold Partner, I've to use Microsoft all the time. C#, MSSQL, ASPX and Sharepoint <- I really hate it! So, in my spare I concentrate to ...
How do you identify who can be potential programmer from people like students? Is it going to take like two weeks? You give them some ideas of programming and test them. Or is it going to be a 3 months? You give them a lot of ideas about programming and test them to see who can perform better in average? Any other methods or views? R...
For someone to be a good programmer should they have a basic understanding of hardware and the operating systems or is it enough that they understand what they are doing inside the specifics of their own application? Should they be able to achieve general tasks in their own operating environment without having to rely upon someone else?...
What is the best website to find freelance programmers? I would like to outsource an iphone application ( possibly the rest of the mobile platforms as well). Has anyone used: http://www.getafreelancer.com http://www.elance.com http://www.guru.com Thanks ...
Often i get solution to a problem I am stuck or even new idea while sleeping... Has anyone else experienced that too or there is something terribly wrong with me. :) ...
It is so easy to get interested in something (including Stackoverflow) and lose a total track of time doing it, even when you have a lot of things to do. What tools and techniques do you use to track your time. I have come across hamster-applet, promodoro technique. RescueTime seems a nice tool to introspect, but there is no proper fro...
I want to become a Freelancer. When i entered into a freelancing site, being a new user i am unable to get the project. ...
Well, I know this world is never fair. I worked damn hard, contribute a lots of time(10++ hours EVERYDAY, work day-to-night on weekdays, and often work on weekend as well) to the project we are doing now. One day, accidentally, I found out that I am the lowest pay in the the project team (probably the whole company), the next day I reall...
Just wonder if there is a kind of www.sellaband.com for developers. Imagine you are running a small web service as your hobby with a bunch of happy users. Now those are asking for a new feature which will take you 400$ to implement based on your hourly rate. You want to answer: Just go to this site, invest some money in my feature fund...
I'm 34 years old. Have I any chance to became a good programmer and to start a career as a software developer if this is new for me? ...
I currently work in a small business (15-20 employees, 5 programmers) where most projects are custom built CMS and a few web applications products. Since I started working there, I have worked on many projects, but specifications for each project vary a lot. Sometimes we get a little detail, a Word document telling what the client want...
I have just recently graduated college with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and have joined the other millions in search for a job. I have took up, Assembly, Java and Scheme in college and have taught myself, PHP, HTML, CSS, Android and JavaScript on the side. My part-time job right now, I serve as a part-time web designer an...