Really Simple Syndication… RSS for short
Last week, as I looked at some sites, I kept noticing links to their RSS feeds. Being back in the public-facing web development arena, I figured that I should...
Microsoft, the Not-So-Evil Empire (Part 1) - CodePlex
This post is the first in many on Microsoft, the Not-So-Evil Empire, in relation to programming related topics and sites. Many years ago, I ran in circles with the...
The GoF, My GoF Experience, and Design Patterns in General
Recently, the GoF came up in a discussion on Twitter. They were talking of design patterns, and Joel Ross actually had to refer to the book for some reason....
A little editor humor…
Real Programmers on It could be worse - they could’ve caught him using pico.
Geocaching: Get the Geek Outside
This post has been inspired by To Code or not To Code, who made a post about his geeky hobby of model railroads. As we discussed, geeks need hobbies...
Considering Your Audience - All of Them…
For all of my past programming positions, I’ve worked on in-house applications. I knew who my end users were, and I was able to develop solutions for them based...
Fascinated by Languages
When I was studying for my degree, one of my favorite classes was a programming paradigms class. It covered various types of languages and some basic structures. It taught...
Why OOPSLA?
Yesterday, at lunch, one of my fellow programmers asked me “Why OOPSLA? Why not TechEd or some other conference?” Honestly, having been out of the programming realm for so...
The Perl Gurl Speaks…
A co-worker asked me today if I had heard of a language called “perl”. The programmers have been talking of various languages ever since one came back from Codemash....
Introduction - Who is the Coding Geekette?
Nine years ago, I was a student at the University of Toledo, studying for my bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering Technology. I was the vice chair for the...