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The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Yet another great post from Jeff Atwood.

What's Wrong With Turkey?

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:51:17 GMT

Software internationalization is difficult under the best of circumstances, but it always amazed me how often one particular country came up in discussions of internationalization problems: Turkey. Jeff's comment should had been in the article but it wasn't It's convenient because: 1) Turkey is similar enough to other Latin alphabets that it's not a giant engineering nightmare to get it to work (see: Arabic or Hebrew). 2) The Turkish-I problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_dotted_and_dotless_I ) causes failures in naive string comparisons, whereas other Latin alphabets don't. 3) The Turkey Test gets you 90% of the way to the goal of internationalizing most apps.* We know French and Spanish are going to work. Why not test with the most difficult (but realistically difficult) locale first? * The other 10% is excruciatingly difficult -- again, think of Arabic (bi-directional, shaped letters) or Hebrew (right-to-left).

A Question of Programming Ethics

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:46:09 GMT

I generally try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but it's difficult to imagine any scenario where this isn't a completely malicious violation of people's trust.

CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:26:21 GMT

Understand that I am no fan of CAPTCHA. I view them as a necessary and important evil, one of precious few things separating average internet users from a torrential deluge of email, comment, and forum spam.

Douchebaggery

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:31:02 GMT

To imply that programmers using Windows "don't care enough about their tools to get the best"? I have a pretty thick skin based on the psychic scars of the thousands of petty internet religious wars I've participated in, and this one even ruffles my feathers a little. I

I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:01:03 GMT

Listening to users is a tricky thing. Users often don't know what they want, and even if they did, the communication is likely to get garbled somewhere between them and you.

There Ain't No Such Thing as the Fastest Code

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:23:20 GMT

He then posted his program as a challenge for readers of PC Techniques-- can this optimized assembly word count program, from an acclaimed industry expert on assembly optimization, be made even faster? Well, I think you can guess what happened next.

Sorting for Humans : Natural Sort Order

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:16:02 GMT

This is a good article on the importance of human-oriented sorting and difficulty in implementing such a routine succinctly it in .NET and LINQ.

Who wrote this crap?

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:31:03 GMT

Jeff Atwood blogs about a neat feature of Visual Studio Team System. See who the last person changed the code.

Embracing Fluent Interfaces - Ayende's Response to Jeff Atwood

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:02:57 GMT

"Jeff Atwood is talking about languages in languages, and suggest that you would avoid using fluent interfaces to hide a language semantics. I completely disagree."

Speed Up Your Site! 8 ASP.NET Performance Tips

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:16:02 GMT

Sample chapter from the book "The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology". Many nice tricks to improve the performance of you site/app.

Revisiting Programming Fonts

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:46:03 GMT

Jeff Atwood discusses programming fonts including the new one on the block, Inconsolata.

Software Branching and Parallel Universes

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:01:02 GMT

"Source control is the very bedrock of software development. Without some sort of version control system in place, you can't reasonably call yourself a software engineer. If you're using a source control system of any kind, you're versioning files almost by definition. The concept of versioning is deeply embedded in every source control system. You can't avoid it. But there's another concept, equally fundamental to source control, which is much less frequently used in practice. That concept is branching."

Coding Horror Interview

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:31:03 GMT

Coding Horror Interview at ScribeSonic. An interview with Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame.

Coding Horror Interview

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:31:03 GMT

Coding Horror Interview at ScribeSonic. An interview with Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame.

Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test?

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:55:47 GMT

An interesting take on getting your developers to think about why they are doing something instead of just blindly doing it, which can help improve the quality of the product.

You're Probably Storing Passwords Incorrectly

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:01:01 GMT

The web is nothing if not a maze of user accounts and logins. Almost everywhere you go on the web requires yet another new set of credentials. Unified login seems to elude us at the moment, so the status quo is ...

Rainbow Hash Cracking

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:31:01 GMT

The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure....

Coding Horror: Discipline Makes Strong Developers

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:46:02 GMT

Jeff explains why Discipline is so important in today's programming world.

Firefox as an IDE

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:46:01 GMT

"Although I prefer IE7's native speed and feel for day-to-day browsing chores, there's no doubt that Firefox is my primary web development IDE. Whenever I need to troubleshoot HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, I immediately reach for Firefox. That's primarily because of two incredibly powerful developer extensions for Firefox: Web Developer Extension and Firebug"

Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:46:02 GMT

The author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all. I repeat: they can't write any code whatsoever.

Why Can't Programmers... Read?

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:46:01 GMT

Is the problem that programmers can't program as CodingHorror states, or that they can't read?

Anything But Waterfall

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:01:02 GMT

Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com takes issue with Steve Yegge's rant on good/bad agile, pointing out that the enemy is not Agile Methodologies, but Waterfall which is where most developers are dealing with.