I just came across this facsinating opinion piece on freshmeat.net about how it just doesn’t make financial sense to work for someone else as a programmer: Common programmers may expect to earn at least $60,000/year, but it is rare for even superstar programmers to command above $150,000, excepting very specialized markets like kernel driver development. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Coding & Web Development'
Why Are You Working For Someone Else Like A Sucker?
July 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Coding & Web Development, Personal
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Is Programming Art?
July 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development
Is programming art? This is a very interesting question that ONLAMP has an article about: What the heck is art anyway, at least as most people understand it? What do people mean when they say “art”? A straw poll showed a fair degree of consensus–art is craft plus a special degree of inspiration. This pretty [...]
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Happy Birthday PHP!
June 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Internet
PHP Developer reports that today PHP is officialy 10 years old: I suppose, like everyone, I should chime in with how things started out for me with PHP: I was a Perl kind of guy until a friend/coworker of mine (who now works with me again) introduced me to PHP back in college. At the [...]
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Javascript can voodoo with XMLHttpRequest
February 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Google, Internet
All in the HEAD has an article on some cool stuff that can be done with XMLHttpRequest. Excerpt: With the advent of Google Suggest it seems that the industry has deemed that client-side XML HTTP is ready for the prime time. The technology is nothing new, of course, and has been part of every server-side [...]
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Browser Speed Test
February 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development
Somebody took the time to do a browser speed test. It Appears that firefox and IE are about the same, but firefox is faster with scripting. Conclusion: So overall, Opera seems to be the fastest browser for windows. Firefox is not faster than Internet Explorer, except for scripting, but for standards support, security and features, [...]
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Streaming Databases, the future?
January 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development
Looks like there’s a company called Streambase which is about to release a new database that’s nothing sort of revolutionary. For an explanation check this excerpt: Michael Stonebraker is well-known in the database business, and for good reasons. He was the computer science professor behind Ingres and Postgres. Eighteen months ago, he started a new [...]
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Google suggest reverse engineered
December 18th, 2004 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Google
Some dude named Server Side Guy has reverse engineered googles new Suggest feature. Nicely done! Saves the rest of us a lot of effort Source code can be found here and adescription of how he did it here.
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