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Kent Sharkey wrote: particularly in the area of testing and quality.
What? Where??? Pass whatever it is you're smoking.
Marc
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Some of the holes the interns found were very dangerous and could allow a clever attacker to gain a control of the apps. Yeah, but how much were the interns charged for access to those bugs?
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Facebook is launching a new initiative called "2G Tuesdays" that will give all employees an opportunity to see what using the app with an incredibly slow connection feels like and help close the "empathy gap" between Silicon Valley and emerging markets. I wish this upon every web (and network) programmer
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I just call those work days where I'm at.
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I love this - especially for web developers who assume that everyone views web sites at 4K resolution
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Why don't they want employees to work on Tuesdays? 
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So, would you prefer Mondays or Fridays?
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With an endless stream of browser fingerprinting exploits, resistance may be futile. For example, I'm guessing you've been to codeproject.com sometime in the last month
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The idea that Microsoft is focused on Agile at all will come as news to some. A 400 pound gorilla, in ballet slippers
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"Developers, developers, developers"
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If, like me, you find yourself getting older and still can’t resist the desire to keep coding and building things, then read on. "The fundamental things apply, as time goes by"
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I remember five things from Binary Digits 101 - does that count?
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Number Six: Remember that the younger the developer you're interacting with, the more likely they are driven by ego more so that idealism. This isn't a bad thing, rather part of the learning process, but one must talk differently when reviewing code or pointing out weaknesses in order to compensate for the ego barrier you've long since overcome. Something a forty year old peer would consider a good suggestion, a youngster might take as a challenge, a threat or an insult.
At least for me, I found life much easier after adopting this rule. I've been offered the management track many times, but I like tinkering with code, new code, strange code, any code, and as I age but young developers are still young developers, I've had to adapt by remembering the ego-maniac I used to be. 
modified 27-Oct-15 18:01pm.
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I struggle with the ego-maniac myself except not so young anymore.
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What I want to know is, how do you pronounce his last name?
Marc
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Great article - thanks for posting the link here.
This is a great line: "Today, software is more like an extreme sport."
Just imagine if everyone who took up programming also took up wingsuit flying.
Wait a second... That could actually solve a lot of problems.
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The EU has rejected legal amendments that would firmly protect the concept of net neutrality in Europe. I don't understand: Europe has always been so neutral in the past
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In other news...
The yes that is spoken affirmatively has resulted in the positive declination of negative statments which have a counter-positive value on the zero scale of affirmation.
In other words....
No one knows what net neutrality means or whether it's good to have it and bad to not have it.
But most likely it means that the Internet will be neutralized one way or the other.
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Brought to you by the people who are trying to rape Google for $8B for not being neutral in it's display of advertising (which is well known to be it's business model).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The claim is that Oracle, which took over Java when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2010, has been a bad steward of the language and, with typical Ellisonian ruthlessness, is abandoning Java while it reinvents itself as a cloud computing business. Sigh. This is just par for the course for Oracle, whose developer relations have always been defined by something in between neglect and contempt. Long live Java!
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I started in C++, moved to C++ MFC for windows dev. Did a stint of writing VisualBasic 5.x, 6.x apps.
I've written ASP.NET C# and been a C# programmer for many years now.
I wrote a few scripts using Java at one point, but little else.
Anways, I'm now writing some real apps for android and I find Java to be a very likable language on the Android platform. Hope Oracle doesn't screw it up for android devs.
Well, I know they've already tried to with their litigation, but you know what I mean.
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The rise of contract and contingent work is shaking up the traditional IT career path. Here’s how to navigate for success. Because giving employees benefits "hurts the bottom line"
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Yes, they don't like to give benefits; no legacy costs -> that might harm the bottom line. I actually decided 11 years ago to take a government IT position for the job stability. As a consultant, I was already going home to study every night and knew that wasn't going to last. I believe in the long-term plan and saw too many people lose their careers in the early 2000's. I figured I'd make more working full-time, instead of working as a consultant until my early 50's and then finishing my career at the local hardware store or Walmart. I don't do the work I imagined, but Code Project does keep me abreast!
I could make probably 50% more per hour consulting, but I feel that the older you get, chasing technologies is like a hamster running on a wheel. And in the end you are nothing more than a ouroboros. As for the young, they should have fun while they can, but should not forget, technology will outrun them in the end.
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