...only this time, in reference to the average number of lines of code each programmer on a particular team should be responsible for supporting/maintaining. Because of all the variables involved, I ...

Sorry if this is borderline OT, but speaking from programmer to programmer, what seemingly unrelated things have helped you be better at what you do? Who about this: * Playing the violin while waiting ...

In this article we will reimplement an exercise taken from the best-selling book "The Pragmatic Programmer" written by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas [1]. In the third chapter "The Basic Tools" the authors ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - Federal espionage and stolen property laws cannot touch suspected software-code thieves, the 2nd Circuit said, explaining why it freed a former Goldman Sachs programmer. Though the ...

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.

I’m one of those founders who can do everything besides code. Marketing? A breeze. Accounting? Accounted for. Operations? Cake walk. Code? I’ll be right back! Not being able to code has put a damper ...

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 ...

September 13 is the 256th day of the year. These three digits may not mean anything to many people, but for those of us who work in different areas of computing it represents the number of whole ...

Artificial Intelligence is steadily improving, with developments like Google's Opal coding tool and a Chinese-made robot with human-like dexterity. AI is also being used to write computer code in a ...