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"How dare you be cordial on a Q&A site."
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"How dare you be cordial on a Q&A site."

I already thought that my little form of protest was petty, where I would periodically revert an edit to one of my questions that I thought was a trivial waste of time. Little did I know the user that edited my question a few months ago to "trim chat" would be ready to out-petty me...

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
4 min read
It's Always Something Stupid
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It's Always Something Stupid

One thing that really grinds my gears from time to time is the way others, even myself sometimes, tend to assume the worst whenever the slightest thing goes wrong. This is especially true

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
5 min read
Interviews Are Two-Way Streets
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Interviews Are Two-Way Streets

Last year I finally had enough of the company I worked for and began to start looking around for new work. I'm proud to say that I ended up landing an awesome job

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
4 min read
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What is the point?

I was in IRC today to ask some development questions when suddenly tons of people left all at the same time. This happened a few times throughout my session. I didn't know what

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
3 min read
Time to finally retire U413 once and for all.
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Time to finally retire U413 once and for all.

Do you ever look at somebody in a choppy relationship and just shake your head at how many times they break up and get back together? Well that's my relationship with U413. Years

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
2 min read
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Stop Thinking Everything is Black and White

Today I was poking around StackOverflow [http://www.stackoverflow.com] when I came across a comment [http://stackoverflow.com/a/12648991/498624] that irked me a little, and it's not the first time

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
6 min read
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A Computer Science Degree Doesn't Always Matter

I know what you're thinking. Every self-taught developer thinks that a degree doesn't matter, but they can't really talk because they don't know what their career would look like if they did get

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
6 min read
3 Traps to Avoid When Searching for a Job
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3 Traps to Avoid When Searching for a Job

I've recently been applying to new jobs in areas that my wife and I are interested in relocating to. One thing I didn't expect when posting my résumé online was the flood of

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
5 min read
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The Mental House of Cards

I read an article [http://www.businessinsider.com/why-programmers-work-at-night-2013-1?0=careers-contributor] just now that opened my eyes a little bit. Nothing in the article was technically new information for me but the perspective

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
3 min read
The Self-Taught Programmer's Guide to Working in the Corporate World
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The Self-Taught Programmer's Guide to Working in the Corporate World

I've been programming since I was in Junior High and it has become the single major constant in my life; My interests sway from one thing to another in every other part of

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
12 min read
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Being a control freak isn't such a bad thing.

If you've worked at a company with a marketing and an IT department then you've probably witnessed the classic battle for where to draw the line on what kind of control marketing has

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
4 min read
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Use Code Names With Your Project or Suffer the Consequences

I have a story about failures in communication to tell so that others might learn from it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have worked with a programming team long enough already to learn where many of

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
6 min read
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Password Leaks Are More Dangerous Than You Think

Yesterday it hit the news that LinkedIn.com was hacked and approximately 6.5 million passwords were stolen. The passwords were encrypted so they are not readable to the untrained observer. For example,

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
6 min read
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Agile vs Waterfall Development

I've learned that there is no end to the things I can learn when it comes to software development skills. Learning is just a part of the software industry and if you're not

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
2 min read
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How to Write a Programming Tutorial

I am in no way a programming or tutorial writing expert but every now and then I overcome a problem or do something enough times that I feel like I have enough to

  • Alex Ford
    Alex Ford
7 min read
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