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Top Ten Habits of Successful Programmers
Around the globe, millions of people are either working as software developers, or aspire to get paid for development work some day. These folks go by many names: software engineer, coder, and developer. At the end of the day, they’re all still programmers, people who understand how to translate what a computer needs to do into the code that gets the job done. To succeed at programming over the long term, a few simple rules need to be followed. Read the rest of this entry »
The Top Ten Dos and Don’ts of Running a Web Operation
By Phil Paradis (philip.paradis@classhelper.org)
I’ve been online since the early days of bulletin board systems (the dial-up kind, where you used terminal software like Procomm Plus, running under DOS to connect to an ANSI text BBS server, over a modem connected to your 386 PC via a serial cable… whew!). My first exposure to the World Wide Web was circa 1994, when primitive HTML pages with even the barest of image content took a few minutes to load in Netscape. Connection rates were measured in baud (bits per second), not megabytes per second, and there were still TV sets floating around with a wire leading from the remote to the tube. With all the technological advances and sweeping changes we’ve seen since then, those “good old days” still shape my views on how online operations ought to be handled. In my opinion, that’s a good thing. Read the rest of this entry »
