The first thing to learn when looking for help on the internet is that the title of this writing is a blatant lie. There are two ways to ask questions, and many of them are wrong. In order to get...

##What are standards? Coding Standards mean different things to everyone, but to me they mean comments. The most important thing to me as a developer is to make sure that someone else can do my job - after all, if...

Welcome to the control center Configuration management is an important skill for anyone who works with software. There are plenty of programs which help with this - Subversion, GitHub, even the old but strong SCCS built into Unix. No large-scale...

Workouts of the Day One popular thing with programmers these days is a thing called a “WOD”, or Workout of the Day. These are intended to be a warmup, or a short challenge to get you ready for a longer...

My software engineering career begins in January of 2010. Before that point, I wanted to be a pilot, and before that a science fiction writer. However, my high school’s robotics team needed a temporary driver, and I was called over....