I’m one of those founders who can do everything besides code. Marketing? A breeze. Accounting? Accounted for. Operations? Cake walk. Code? I’ll be right back! Not being able to code has put a damper ...

In this article we will reimplement an exercise taken from the best-selling book "The Pragmatic Programmer" written by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas [1]. In the third chapter "The Basic Tools" the authors ...

September 13 is the 256th day of the year. These three digits may not mean anything to many people, but for those of us who work in different areas of computing it represents the number of whole ...

...only this time, in reference to the average number of lines of code each programmer on a particular team should be responsible for supporting/maintaining. Because of all the variables involved, I ...

You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a ...

To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix ...

One of my favourite books from 1997 is Ellen Ullman's collection of essays, Close to the Machine. Ullman began her adult life as an aspiring writer, diverted into software engineering for a decade or ...

A former Goldman Sachs programmer was sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison for stealing code from the company's high-frequency trading platform. Sergey Aleynikov was a programmer at the large ...

From the computer programming question-and-answer site Stack Overflow, we learn of the unfortunate story of a programmer who tattooed a "fork bomb," a type of self-replicating denial-of-service attack ...

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