social "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...
social 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
social 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
social 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
social 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
social Stop Thinking Everything is Black and White Today I was poking around StackOverflow when I came across a comment that irked me a little, and it's not the first time I've seen this behavior. I've noticed that a lot of
social 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
social 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
social The Mental House of Cards I read an article just now that opened my eyes a little bit. Nothing in the article was technically new information for me but the perspective was. The article explains that programmers often
social 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
social 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
social 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 the
social 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,
social 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
social 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
