One of my first official jobs in the software development industry was that of a tester. My job entailed looking at stacks of papers that were printed out by a new printer we were testing at HP, and comparing them to the [ read more...]
It’s that time again where I go through all the book I read this year and give you a short review of each one. This year, I read a whopping 72 books! Yes, that's crazy, I know. I was a bit shocked [ read more...]
We can all get overwhelmed at times by jargon terms like MVC (Model View Controller), Abstract Factory, and GOF (Gang of Four) patterns. Let me admit something: for a long time I was comfortable with only one pattern, Singleton. I completely understood [ read more...]
Producing working software involves much more than just writing code. Most substantial software applications require some kind of data storage, and they have to be built, tested, and deployed somewhere. And you know what? We need people who know how to handle [ read more...]
As a developer, we often tend to “try out” stuff to see if it works and throw out the results if they don't live up to our expectations. Whether you're creating this nice generic function to make things in your app more [ read more...]
So, I've seen a lot of people asking me this question, about what does C/C++ mean. Well, for new software developers this might not make any sense, after all, why do these companies put in their job listing “we want a C/C++ [ read more...]