September 20, 2011 | 1 Comment
Finally, two months after OSCON 2011, here’s a dump of my notes from the more tech-heavy sessions I attended. Some of it is narrative, and some of it is just barely-formatted notes. The target here is my own use of … Continue reading
July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
Twitter has a list of 401 passwords that they disallow, not because of content, but because of how commonly used they are. A common password is easier for a bad guy to guess. None of these are passwords you’d want … Continue reading
July 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
For programmers raised on high-level languages like Perl, Java and PHP, working on a C project can be daunting. Still, many open source projects work at a low-level in C to take advantage of the power and speed of working … Continue reading
April 18, 2010 | 0 comments
This past Friday, I spoke at POSSCON on what schools should be teaching IT students. Here are the slides from the presentation. What schools should be teaching IT students View more presentations from Andy Lester.
May 8, 2009 | 17 Comments
In a thread on Stack Overflow, a reader named Andrew finishing his undergrad degree asked: I notice that the vast majority of companies I’m looking at are strictly Microsoft users, from windows to visual studio. Am I going to be … Continue reading
April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
A reader who wishes to remain anonymous wrote to ask: I’m a programmer from the Philippines. I’m kind of a latebloomer since I didn’t take up Computer Science or a similar course in college, but I learned programming on my … Continue reading
September 30, 2006 | 1 Comment
Steve Yegge has posted this rant called “Good Agile, Bad Agile” that I’ve seen posted a couple of places, and there’s over 100 comments on it, and it’s just a steaming pile. It’s hard to discuss the article, because Yegge’s … Continue reading