programming

So you are coding along riding that TDD high when you reach the point at which your code needs to send an email. What do you do now? You might consider writing something...

Hardest part of coding is not writing code, but reading it.

Yogi Berra once said "it's deja vu all over again", and he was right. For each HTML/CSS template I build I find myself dealing with the same issues. How do I clear ev...

I don’t know about you, but when I find something wordy but really worth reading on the web, I print it out. Sure, I could try reading it on my tablet, but do you really ...

Mistakes made when developing with Ajax .

To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. Writing...

In a recent post , I compared the expressiveness of the Ruby style of writing code to the current C# style of writing code. I then went on and demonstrated one approach to ach...

While we’re on the topic of appropriate analogies for software development, my homie Micah writes a post about how certain analogies fall short, and he compares writing ...

Jeff Atwood writes a great summary of Open Source Licenses . As far as I’m concerned, there’s really only four software licenses to worry about (open source or oth...

One common objection I hear to TDD and writing unit tests is that it creates a lot of extra work to develop software. And this is true, but it does not give a complete picture....

Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. - Wikipedia Why it is so difficult to understand the nature of the Softwa...

Websites are built for specific types of viewers and must appeal to a definite target market. Users must be able to view your site, scan everything, and immediately understand ...

A while ago, Jeff Atwood wrote about the merits of laziness for successful software developers. Lest this become the mantra of sub-performing developers everywhere, I wante...

As a kid, one of my favorite tools I had was a shiny red cased Victorinox swiss army knife. I’d carry that sucker around with me everywhere, using the main blade to tackl...

When searching for source code in a particular language, what do the words being searched on tell you about that language? Koders.com publishes an interesting Open Source Ze...

Now I like to take shots at myself for producing drivel now and then, but today, I’m going to take a shot at someone else’s drivel. I really should be working right...

In Jeff Atwood’s infamous FizzBuzz post , he quotes Dan Kegel who mentions. Less trivially, I’ve interviewed many candidates who can’t use recursion to ...

In the The Mythical Man-Month , Fred Brooks highlights an eye opening disparity in productivity between good and poor programmers ( emphasis mine ). Programming managers...

Businesses need a website to compete in today's markets. The problem is everyone else has a website too, because they want to compete. The result is thousands of sites selling ...

Most of the time when I’m testing my code, I only test it using the en-US culture since, ...well..., I speak English and I live in the U.S. Isn’t the U.S. the only ...

Have you ever wanted to take a look at the internals of the .NET Framework? Sure you can (and should) fire up Reflector and see the Base Class Libraries, but what about the f...

I don’t know about you, but every company I’ve ever worked at had a Fort Knox like system in place for deploying code to the production server. Typically, deploymen...

Choosing the right typeface for your website copy is important, since it will affect the way your readers perceive your page. Aside from this, there are also important usabilit...

In my last post , I wrote about how most email validation routines are too strict when compared against what is allowed by the RFC. Initially I dismissed this phenomena as the...

As a webmaster, you want to keep your visitors content so they ll come back again. Here you will find ten common mistakes made by webmasters that may deter people from returning.

After thinking about doing it for many months, I finally converted 2tbsp.com from Wordpress 2 to Drupal 5. I didn't make this move because of anything wrong with Wordpress. Wor...

David Meyer recently published a .NET class library that enables duck typing (also sometimes incorrectly described as Latent Typing as Ian Griffiths explains in hi...

Author has been coding in C++ for a long time now. Even though from the start the language had certain warts he didn’t like, certain aspects of it were irresistable to him.

Joe Cheng , member of the Windows Live Writer team, just unveiled his first publicly available Windows Live Writer plugin... I’ve just released my first (publicly a...

Been a short break from blogging, but I’m ready to get back to writing about Cody , I mean code! My philosophy towards Open Source Software is that the more shari...