I am a Programmer, and I can Complicate the #@$% out of a Ball Bearing
Image by Oliver | Some Rights Reserved Sometimes the simplest of things elude us. We miss the forest for the trees. Or, we come up with what seems to be an elegant solution to a coding problem, only to realize (or, in my case,...
Creating A Basic Make File for Compiling C Code
Image by quimby | Some Rights Reserved I recently began taking a Harvard computer science course. As pretentious as that sounds, it’s not as bad as it seems. I am taking Harvard CS50 on-line, for free, in an attempt to...
Taking Harvard Computer Science for Free
Image by HackNY.org | Some Rights Reserved As you may or may not know, I have zero formal training is programming or software development. I am self-taught, which really means I have learned at the hands of those willing to share...
I Am Here to Steal Your Education . . .
. . . Or, why the STL ALT.NET User Group kicks so much ass. One of the best moves I ever made was getting involved with a developer user group, or “meet up” as they are sometimes known. Here’s why. I am a self-taught developer,...
At What Cost, Knowledge?
Free Beer? There is a generation out there which has forgotten (or more correctly, never learned) the value of knowledge. In the last decade or so, it is safe to say the internet has replaced television as the ubiquitous...