To follow up my previous question, I’ve delve a bit more into the “financial derivative trading” world in trying to understand what is means for programmers and how it is like working as a programmer in that environment. I’ve seen positions like “Front Office” programmer positions and “Back Office” programmer positions, I wonder what the...
I’ve been programming C# professionally for a bit over 4 years now. For the past 4 years I’ve worked for a few small/medium companies ranging from “web/ads agencies”, small industry specific software shops to a small startup. I've been mainly doing "business apps" that involves using high-level programming languages (garbage collected) a...
Hi all, I've been working with computers for nearly 30 years (started out coding BASIC on a PET, then 6502 onto 68000 and C). I later gained a CompSci Degree and continued programming, moving into databases (DBA) and I've spent the last 10 years to present day as a Unix Sys Admin. I spent the last couple of years writing java for a ...
Hi All, We're going to be building some J2ME apps and Java/Rails webapps which will have a Kannada(a south indian language, for those who don't know much about India) UI. The UI and the data will both be in Kannada for these apps. So, we will need to write code containing some of these language text in the source code. I find it irrita...
Hi All, We're going to be building some J2ME apps and J2ee/Rails webapps which will have a Kannada(a south indian language, for those who don't know much about India) UI. The UI and the data will both be in Kannada for these apps. So, we will need to write code containing some of these language text in the source code. I find it irrita...
Consider a web development company where the team leaders are asked to assess their team members. On what basis or factors should a team leader assess his team member's quality, programming in particular? Suggest me the general qualities too to be considered a high profile programmer. ...
When going through some of my applications in the past, I have noticed that compiled into the assembly is information such as where my project is, my username (which happened to be my full name, not my online handle) in Windows, and honestly I'm not sure what else. Now I know the primary reason of this is when compiled under Debug, as t...
Good morning, I am reading the "Pragmatic Programmer", I am at the section were they talk about "Orthogonailty" and the approach to take when coding. I was wondering if you can implement the "Orthogonailty" technique with php application development because in the book its mainly about software development ? Do you know of any articl...
i know it depends on many thing. But can anybody tell me how long it should be ? I just want to draw a boundaries between successful and failed attempt to convert myself ? ...
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 ...
How do you cope with deadline pressure on a coding job? ...
I am going to submit my PhD thesis within the next six months. My PhD is on managing the availabiity of large-scale distributed systems, so I have some experience actually building non-trivial systems (+ I have four years experience working as a programmer). I am now trying to figure out what I should do following the PhD. I enjoy res...
Hi, what is programmer job or tasks? is it only programming, or it includes software testing,windows installer, network management, helpdesk, documentation??? AS I am a graduate developer, I feel like I am doing everything, from upgrading hardware, installing antivirus, ...everything.... and of course coding... thanks ...
I am going to apply Joel's method: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html I'm curious if is there anybody that used this method of hiring for long periods of time. Any comment could be useful. Thanks. ...
hello a friend of mind ask something about php editor for his companion on coding. PHP Editor that able to trace dependency of all function in a file with models/controllers or another part of a framework (or something we had code). Basicly we use notepad++ but seeking another alternative. ...
Original Atmel jtag programmer costs $300. http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card_v2.asp?tool_id=3353 http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?site=us&lang=en&mpart=ATJTAGICE2 Which clone do you recommend me? Are they 100% clones? (work with avr studio, same fw etc.) thanks. ...
Programmers often serves as a designer of user interfaces. You could argue whether it is good or not. However, especially in small companies, it is a reality that does not change. What do you think personally as a programmer, is it our work to design UI? Personally I think that not, especially when you are going to work on Web Applicati...
What Is a Junior Programmer? ...
I have done 4 years of development & maintenance on Linux user space using C, Got some idea of threads, IPCs, socket prog. etc. Looking in Indian job market, it seems to be more (current) demand of C++ or kernel programmers. Or of application programmers or SAP ABAP scripters. I am thinking of adding/shifting my career path (as C-Linux u...
Hi there folks ! I'm a PHP programmer from Bulgaria. I have a visual impairment called Keratoconus which worsens my vision with time, and although it's not very probable that it's going to develop much further I'm a bit worried about my programming career. Especially dealing with the front end work technologies like HTML/CSS/AJAX coding...