What are the known cases where a programmer (just by programming) can become rich. A programmer that started a company, I think, doesn't count except if he/she was not the CEO but the leader programmer. This question, at first, may seems silly but its so fundamental as anyone else that you'll see in this site. In a given moment, a pro...
I was just reading how can you tell whether you're ready to start your own blog. The answers are so good and inspiring that I made rush to start my own blog using blogger and stopped right in my tracks. I looked on the menu bar as I was creating my first post, and duh, there's no nice "code sample" formatting option like the one on Sta...
Imagine like an 8-hour long video of any "typical/average" programming job. What is it like? Before I get myself involved in that path, what can I expect? I am interested in gathering first-hand information and accounts of the typical life of a programmer. My goal is to grasp the fundamental concepts of working in the professional fiel...
Title says it all... Mine is "Never stop learning"... :) ...
I have worked as a programmer for over ten years, with a pretty good grasp of PHP, classic ASP, and VB. But I am self-taught, first using books and magazines, and now the Internet to improve my skills. [Edit: I studied engineering in school, so I quickly learned enough programming to get my lab work done (Fortran, Pascal, and Assembly i...
Which chatrooms do you use to interact with other developers? Which IRC channels, for example, on freenode? What other, besides IRC, places and communities? ...
I see programming as the meeting-place of creative arts and science. Most of us ... are interested in programming for the fulfillment achieved by creativeness tempered by the rigor of applied science; produce extremely high quality products that we distribute for free (FOSS, as an example); subject ourselves to peer-reviews that few e...
I work at a growing company where developers were doing customer support. Now, that our customer base is growing and we're trying to get the documentation the support staff needs in order answer the questions for the developers. So, In a normal day, how much documentation can be expected of developers. What kind of documentation? A...
I know some people move over to management and some die... but where do the rest go and why? One reason people change to management is that in some companies the "Programmer" career path is very short - you can get to be a senior programmer within a few years. Leaving no way to get more money but to become a manager. In other companie...
I had a little conversation with a colleague a couple of days ago about tax breaks that can be given to r&d department of some companies, but to justify that tax break, you need to prove that you really are a real r&d department by documenting all uncertainty that your projects may have that lead to a real research and implementation of ...
I recently got my first programming internship and was extremely excited to finally be able to talk with and interact with fellow programmers. I had this assumption that I would find a bunch of like minded individuals who enjoyed programming and other aspects of geek culture. Unfortunately, I find myself working with normal people who pr...
Hi, Is there any technology, library or component that provide real time file sharing on mobile platforms like Symbian , and windows mobile?? RealRime File Sharing means, the ability to share for example word file on windows mobile (Group of users), and the ability to edit the file in real time by any one of the usrs , while the other...
While developing software, developers always tend to curse about some language specifics, "improvements" that made language less understandable, buggy. What obstacles / improvements have you met, that you'd be pleased no one ever invented / introduced? My 2 cents: I cursed for 3 days at delphi 2009. I had an internal compiler error, w...
I have a few software developers working for my projects and I would like to provide them a way to register time they spent on real development. There is good will to register development hours, no force, but we try to avoid techniques like excel sheets register because this is so uncomfortable. I can track svn commits, but this is unr...
I know some university students studying JAVA as OOP according to the syllabus. Previously they learned C and C++ as well. I want to show them the path of C# as it is not in their syllabus. But if I suggest a 500-paged book, very few are going to read it. And if I go with some JAVA-C# comparison, may be they will not get many of the poin...
Hi, We're in a fast paced industry (communications) and we build websites and mobile app among the other departments of the company (print, ads, advertising, etc). We are the only "non-creative" department and our methodologies often clashes with the other departments. They usually go see people directly without any sort of methodologi...
Hi, Looking for a programmer to work on a website built in .net and C#/HTML? Can anyone recommend? Many thanks Ian M ...
I don't know if this happens to you guys but sometimes I get so absorbed debugging an issue that the fix is right in front of your eyes and I can't see it. Getting a friend to look into your code sometimes helps. Its embarrassing at times, is it just me or this happens to others too? Any tips to avoid this. ...
Have you come across a super programmer? What identifies him or her as such? Also. how do you deal with a person in your team who believes he is a super programmer? Both in case he actually is or if he isn't? ...