What is a software developer? A developer – also known as a programmer, coder or software engineer – is an IT professional who uses programming languages to create computer software. What do software ...

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One of my favourite books from 1997 is Ellen Ullman's collection of essays, Close to the Machine. Ullman began her adult life as an aspiring writer, diverted into software engineering for a decade or ...

Family doesn't punish someone for being ill.

Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...

You may have heard it said that ‘All code is legacy code.’ It’s a useful guiding principle — and truer than we want to admit. If all code is legacy code, then we are all maintainers. I carry an image ...