Back in my day, and I’m not that old, programmers were a subset of people who were “really good with computers”. It would be hard to find a programmer who didn’t know how to use the operating system of their choosing far beyond end user level. These days things are a little different. Now we’re
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Last week I asked you to provide me with feedback via a quick survey. In today’s post I’ll share the results. Q: How would you rate Programmingzen.com’s content in terms of usefulness? Most of you found the blog to be quite useful. Thank you. Q: How interesting would you say the content is? It’s more interesting
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This week I decided to get some feedback from my readers on various blogs I run. I feel it’s important to blog about topics that my audience actually cares about. I created a short survey for Zen and the Art of Programming, and it should take you no longer than a couple of minutes to
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As a developer, you’ll spend a lot of your time writing code. Less than you’d think, as we’ll see in future tips in the series, but still thousands of hours. It pays dividends to master your code editor. A powerful editor, properly used, will provide a myriad of benefits. Benefits of a code editor
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A surprising amount of people in our profession are not familiar with revision control software. In the world of computer software engineering, revision control is any kind of practice that tracks and provides control over changes to source code. Software developers sometimes use revision control software to maintain documentation and configuration files as well as
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