Duplicate: What every programmer should know about __ ? I'm looking for guides like the ones: What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets So... which other guides are out there written by prog...
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...
I love programming and I look forward to going to work everyday, but there are other (non-paying) activities which I would describe as my passion. I dream sometimes of having half my day devoted to this passion of mine, but I've never heard of any employer agreeing to half pay for half a day's work. Has anybody arranged such a thing or ...
Hi, I am fed up with qwerty keyboard for programming. I am looking for a more convinent keymap. I tried learning dvorak. I see there are lot of versions of dvorak, which one should I use? Also, I heard about Bepo, is it an other keymap or just a version of dvorak? ...
What should every programmer know about hardware internals? I do not mean hardware assembly or maintenance, but rather how the hardware actually works. ...
Reading anything about programming, you'll invariably come across a discussion about "mediocre" programmers versus "good" programmers. I've never come across a colleague I labeled as "mediocre". Sure, you definitely meet some outstanding developers, but more or less most of my colleagues have gotten the job done otherwise they would ha...
Hey, I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I think it's a cool place to try. I'm a Mac, iOS and web developer and I got plans of moving to California. What's the average salary for this job in CA? ...
When I investigated ruby/rails, I found this philosophy/opinion to come up over and over again. People in the PHP world often think the same way as well. The thing is - I don't get it. I use an IDE, and frankly, I would refuse to work without it - i.e., in a text editor with basic syntax highlighting. There are just so many great feat...
What is the best way to choose colors for LoB app, i need to style TreeView, dropdown's, textboxes and a pivot grid, so i need a bunch of colors, tried Kuler but it gives only 6 colors. So the question is how to do it without designer? ...