stuff for programmers

The Eclipse IDE  has built in what they call task tags.  These are little tags in the comments that indicate that something needs to still be done.  An example of this is the popular TODO tag.  I see a lot of people using this tag, and sometimes, even IDEs add them in for you.  Eclipse [...]

So I’ve just spent the last three hours playing around on a new site I discovered called Clients From Hell:   http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/. The site is primarily for web designers, but it just goes to show you that the customer isn’t always right.  Sometimes, clients and users have no idea what they really want.  Or worse:  they think [...]

The other day at work, I was reminded of some problems we were having a while back with getting some DLLs to load.  It was quite frustrating, and we couldn’t get the problem fixed on our own.  We eventually discovered a nifty utility program called Dependency Walker (http://www.dependencywalker.com/) that helped us find out what was [...]

We spend a lot of time thinking about technical skills when we work in a technical industry.  However, I can think of (at least) three non-technical skills that all developers should be able to peform, at at least a basic functional level.  Having these skills will definitely make you stand out above other “normal” programmers. [...]