Developing Programmers .com

I recently picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy’s book, “Coder To Developer”. The title grabbed me right away because it’s exactly what this site is about! Reading it in fragments of time between work and home commitments, I was actually excited to try things after reading each chapter. The bulk of the book is [...]

Developer.* (pronounced “developer dot star,” as a play on wildcard characters ) is an independent resource devoted to topics of interest to software development professionals of all types–programmers, software architects, QA engineers, database designers, researchers, professors, and everyone in between–even managers! Developer.* offers articles, blogs, and even books about software development. It’s so relevant to [...]

I recently had to produce a console application and chose the Qt toolkit to write the application in. I can hear the shocked replies now, “isn’t Qt a graphics toolkit?”, “why bother?”, “how?”, “are you saying we should all use Qt?”, and “what has this got to do with professional programming?” I’ll address each question [...]

I’ve been plugging some of Joel Spolsky’s articles about coding recently because he has a fair bit of experience and his advice, although not suited to every situation, is generally good and deserving of serious consideration. I’ve pointed out articles from Joel on Software such as “Making Wrong Code Look Wrong“, and the points Joel [...]

Ridiculous Fish have a most wonderful article about how floats are stored and what numbers they can and can’t represent.