While I agree with most of what Elvis say. There is a need to look deeper, there are open ends:
1.) How do you determine individuals are “qualified and prepared”?
2.) Assuming you can consistently solve point 1, if the individual does not care, is not motivated, then all preparedness and qualifications, and even professionalism wont help.
3.) [...]
This past Friday, I received a surprising email, from a former co-worker, it’s been a year or more since I left that particular company (wont name, names). We were in different departments, but were by fate put on the same project.
This particular project was (is) of the utmost importance for that company, and in his [...]
Long day! Been up for 46 hours don’t ask, not pretty, and I’m very pissed off! So what’s all this about, I was writing some code, that was proclaimed finished three weeks ago, to find out that, well, it needs to be ported to a new hardware, and the demo is today (I was told [...]
It’s been a bit since I blogged. I’ve been busy with work. I’m working on a non-deterministic algorithm, that will be used for random data generation that serve as seeds for a more complex algorithm that generates serial keys.* I know the above is very ambiguous but that’s all I’m allowed to say. It’s [...]
A friend of my wife came up to me yesterday, he’s studying to become a Systems Engineer, and he wanted to know: What did I do to become a good programmer?
My answer: Who said I was a good programmer?
To be honest, I’m not sure if I am a good or bad programmer, and I never [...]
For years I have ignored the programmer vs. developer problem. For those of you that don’t know of this problem it’s quite simple: There is a trend in some IT circles to regard programmers as second class citizens, as code cowboys that are trigger happy, and are just good for writing code.
Right now if you [...]
In my quest for being more efficient, I’ve been playing around with Weblogger.
I know most of you are not interested in Emacs, but just in case someone
besides me uses Emacs as it’s default editor, this might be helpful or just plain cool.
There has been a lot said about code being art, and there are quite a few different reasons for this, but I won’t go into them here. There is truth, in that code is art, the problem is that in most cases, programmers misunderstand the term art, and believe that art is [...]
What the hell is going on? I am totally for competition, variety and completeness, but the surge of source code management tools is getting out of hand!
Git: According to Linus and some kernel developers, it’s IT. There is nothing better, oh and SVN and CVS suck and you are either a sucker or a moron [...]
Programming is a complex task, and it’s even more complex when you add security to the equation, there are lots of manuals on the Internet, and books on amazon that deal with secure programming, mostly they either geared to web developers or C programmers. What has prompted me to write this is the fact that [...]