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A follow-up on a bunch of programmers highlighted in the 1986 book "Programmers at Work."

http://developers.slashdot.org/develope ... 7240.shtml

How to keep your job as a programmer:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article. ... 20/1557251


He doesn't seem to adhere to the "work well and you will be rewarded" train of thought, though.

M$ creates Side by Side to help sort out the DLL mess:

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09 ... ?art_pos=4

While this is partly M$' fault, sloppy programmers also led to this.

"Brainfuck" programming language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

Programming errors and how to avoid them:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/application- ... stakes-706

If you've ever wanted to try out Ruby this is probably one of the best (and free) online books to learn it. Its bizarre, contains cartoons, and is just a fantastic read whether you're new to programming or already know a few languages:

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-gui ... ter-3.html

Why little to no money can be a benefit to game development:

http://archive.assembly.org/2011/semina ... king-games

CSS coding trick where you can steal any website's background:

http://css-tricks.com/264-how-to-steal- ... und-image/


Unite, Code Monkeys, unite!

Awesome story of a coder who worked at Microsoft and his "war" against a coder at AOL to make Messenger work with their protocol:

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/