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Developing Programmers has been down for a while, due to a power supply “exploding” (figuratively). “Trouble” has migrated the whole system to another machine in another country and it’s now up and running again! Yay! The new server location should be faster for US visitors; and sadly a bit slower for readers in Australia. [...]

I have just accepted a new job at CVSDude.com! CVSDude offers online services for developers, such as revision control, bug tracking, documentation wikis, etc. This means I will be developing and supporting software that helps people to carry out some of the practices that I originally set up this site to promote. It’s a very suitable [...]

Between a major work deadline (on Wednesday) and a house move (all week) I haven’t had as much time as I’d like for writing. Rest assured I’ve been doing research (meetings, emailing questions, and even a couple of interviews) for a few articles, including: Job interviews: Don’t Panic! Consultants: Are they really consulted or just temp staff? The [...]

I’ve taken down the polling system since the new (still experimental) forums have niftier polls. The results of the last poll were interesting — it looks like a lot of readers of this site write their own libraries: Do you find out about new libraries? Yes, I always check what’s new: 33% (4 votes) I make the libs [...]

I’ve been pretty impressively sick for about a week now. Again. I’ve recovered enough now to sit up at the computer for a bit, so hopefully I can give you another article soon. While I’m talking about health, health is important for a professional programmer. Let’s face it, if your day job involves sitting in [...]