Karl Sequin is giving away what appears to be a great fundamental of programming book called Foundations of Programming . Karl says: I'm excited to finally release the official, and completely free, Foundations of Programming E-book. This essentially contains all 9 Foundation parts including a conclusion...
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Microsoft Visual Studio provides great extensibility for developers to create tools for fellow developers to use. Many of these add-ins are made to help developers gain productivity. I have been using a couple of these tools with similar features; I have been a long-time user of the Visual Studio add...
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Following up from Matt Blodgett's post who was responding to Mike Eaton's challenge about how we got started in software development and answer some questions about my background. How old were you when you started programming? I was 16, a sophomore in high school. How did you get started in programming...
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I believe in continuous self-improvement, whether it be in the technology I use, personal relationships or any aspect of life. It's easy to become stagnate if care is not taken. Developers are pretty much divided into two categories, those that look to improve themselves and those that don't. Those that...
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I have been using some form of source control for what seems an eternity. I started out using the copy-to directory method because source control did not really exist at the time. More recently I have used both Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, SourceGear's Vault and Team Foundation Server , all of which...
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Any developer who is tasked with the job of consuming the services from some of the popular web sites has probably gone a little mad trying to make it all happen. Each web site, whether it be Google, Digg, Flickr, Yahoo or Microsoft, has their own set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which...
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I talk to a lot of companies who have software developers on staff, many who tend to have a higher turnover rate than they would like. Why does this happen and how can employers avoid this? Employers often think the main motivation for employees is money. This may be the draw initially, but it is not...
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Jeremiah Owyang has a post with great advice to developers who are getting older and having a hard time keeping up with the younger crowd. The advice includes: What specific steps did I tell him to take? Start reading books on web management and process management Understand how the software fits into...
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I came across an interesting post over the weekend from the web site CIO where Esther Schindler Is Computer Language Popularity Important? It was a well written look at what drives both developers and companies to a particular language and how the choice is made. In my experience developers tend to like...
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I came across a couple videos from the JAOO 2007 Conference. I was not able to attend but much content has been made available. The interview with the creator of Erlang , Joe Armstrong is two parts and is over on Channel 9. JAOO 2007: Joe Armstrong - On Erlang, OO, Concurrency, Shared State and the Future...
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