Archive for the 'programming' Category
This is a reminder to all you programmers and lovers of programmers, that Programmer Day falls on September 12th this year. Go ahead and mark your calenders now so you don’t forget! Programmer Day falls on the 256th day of the year, normally September 13th. But since it’s a leap year, we get to [...]
Recap:
Resolution #1: Read a self-improvement book
As I mentioned yesterday, the Pragmatic Programming book inspired me for:
Resolution #2: Learn a new Skill
For me, this usually means I learn a new programming language. I’ve picked PHP for this year since Wordpress is written in PHP, I’m pretty sure it’ll come in handy and I’ll be [...]
It’s 2008 and one of the things I’ve been working on is an updated website for ProgrammerDay.info. I threw the last one together very quickly using Wordpress. The need for a database connection meant the site went down and went down hard when it hit the front page of Fark. I’ve been [...]
Programmers make the World (wide web) go ’round. Today I want to give thanks to my fellow programmers. I’ve always enjoyed the company of programmers, there seems to be something about us code jockeys that’s universal. Nothing made this more clear to me than this past Programmer Day, when I saw that same thing in [...]
This weekend Wesabe celebrated it’s first birthday! It seemed fitting that I say a big Congratulations and Thank You! If you haven’t tried Wesabe yet, then you’re missing out. Wesabe is useful, usable, and secure way to track your personal finances online and with the large and helpful community offering tips and [...]
On the heels of Krugle’s huge IBM DeveloperWorks deal comes another big announcement from the code search engine powerhouse, a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you’re not a programmer then you probably don’t care to much about the details, but here are few things you might want to know:
Krugle [...]
IEEE Computer Society
Association for Computing Machinery
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
If you are a programmer and are looking for a good programmer community to join there are a lot of choices depending on what your specialties or passions are. If you are looking for something more generic to programming that deals with the industry as [...]
