Over the last few weeks I’ve been interviewing potential candidates for development and QA internships. I can confidently say without exaggerating that this has been one of the most difficult and frankly disappointing experiences of my professional life. Frankly, most...
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There are some bugs that you fix and brag about to your friends afterward, then there are the ones that are just plain embarrassing. Unfortunately, I’m writing about one of the latter today rather than the former. You see this pitfall, though no more or less annoying...
Coding is More than Just Code
Every week I do a little online radio show called Coder Radio with incomparable Chris Fisher. Most of the show’s feedback is overwhelmingly positive, however, there is, on occasion, a comment made about the show lacking in “code”. In the past, I’ve brushed these...
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I recently read Programming C# 5.0 by Ian Griffiths as part of O'Reilly’s Blogger Review program. For those who care about formats, I read the epub format and not the print one. Overall the book isn’t bad, but there are some issues that left me less than impressed. My...
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