Sarcasm is a powerful tool that any good developer should know how to wield effectively. I just spent the last hour or so watching a rather amusing presentation by Cal Henderson at DjangoCon08:
While I found the talk to actually be both informative and entertaining, what I mainly noted was the pure sarcasm dripping from the [...]
There’s a big difference between having experience writing code and having experience as a professional software developer in the software industry.
I don’t have that much experience as a professional software developer. As for writing code, sure, I first learned to program on the TI-99/4A, when I was like 6 years old or something. But [...]
Most projects go through a post-mortem once they been delivered (or outsourced, as the case may be). One of the questions that should always be asked is: was the project a success? In normal, everyday lingo (or, for the cynical, in “management-speak”), this question can receive a fairly subjective response:
“Sure it’s successful, look at how [...]
For professional software developers and full-time computer science students, nearly all of your time 9-5 is spent working on programming or something similar, for someone else, to get paid money, to pay the rent/mortgage and send the kids to college some day. I think a lot of software developers got into the industry because they [...]
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