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As you’ll know if you’ve been following Joel On Software, Joel and Jeff Atwood have recently launched “Stack Overflow“, a Q&A site of programming questions with answers that are voted up or down. As well as being generally worth a look, I thought DP readers might find this thread especially useful, it is about the [...]

I recently noticed this FAQ by Bjarne Stroustrup himself on various aspects of why C++ is designed the way it is, how to get the most out of it in various common situations, and how Stroustrup responds to questions about features from other languages like Java and C#. If you use C++ at all, or [...]

How do you hire good software developers and actually keep them? Joel Spolsky offers a few ideas, in his article “A Field Guide to Developers”. Joel’s ideas include treating developers like stars instead of dirt. Sadly most places I’ve seen treat their programmers like dirt and think that when their staff quit it is a [...]

Joshua Bloch has posted on the Official Research Blog about how most binary search and merge sort code is broken and has been for years. The bug is to do with large arrays, and highlights how often programmers accept code that will do “for the examples we have right now” rather than considering whether it’ll [...]

How often do you design user interfaces? Some of us don’t need to work with them much. Others have professional designers to do UI design for them. For the rest of us, well at least creating a User Interface is easy these days. Creating a Usable Interface on the other hand can be quite a [...]