Coding Geekette

This is in response to John Stockton’s post on To Code or not To Code. (The entries I mentioned about coding will come next week.) Like John, my rankings change from time to time, usually depending on the situation and what’s making me really unhappy or super stressed out. There are also prior experiences that [...]

I’m slowly working on entries related to coding itself, so if you’re reading this to see what kind of code I write or what it is about programming that I’ve been into lately, hang in there. Those entries are in the works. Last Monday, there was a discussion on Twitter, focused around the question “Why [...]

While on Twitter last night, Ben Fulton mentioned that he was a stevenharman disciple (his words, not mine). I hadn’t heard of the guy so I figured I’d check his blog out. I came across an entry on his blog titled “On Geek Hero Worship”, and I definitely could relate to that. The first thing [...]

Last night, Reuben Ahmed of Bennett Adelson gave a presentation to the .NET SIG on XNA Game Studio 2.0. He took us through a simplified game creation process, creating a basic Invasion of Alien Lifeform (think “space invaders”) clone in a little over 2 hours. Reuben kept relating the stages to Mario and the various [...]

I’m at home today, thanks to this awful weather and my body not liking weather changes much. So being at home, I was twitter-surfing and came across the tweets of one of my favorite programming bloggers/authors. In one of his recent tweets, he mentions (in passing) that he has a mentor, which I find quite [...]

Last week, as I looked at some sites, I kept noticing links to their RSS feeds. Being back in the public-facing web development arena, I figured that I should probably understand the technologies that are out there for me to use. So I contacted my friend Nivex, who I knew had dealt with RSS feeds [...]

This post is the first in many on Microsoft, the Not-So-Evil Empire, in relation to programming related topics and sites. Many years ago, I ran in circles with the Toledo Area Linux Users Group and later on with some of the guys here in Cleveland. One thing I noticed with those crews is the strong [...]

Recently, the GoF came up in a discussion on Twitter. They were talking of design patterns, and Joel Ross actually had to refer to the book for some reason. Now to a seasoned programmer, the GoF is well-known. But some programmers out there are not aware of the GoF or their book. They didn’t mention [...]

Real Programmers on xkcd.com It could be worse - they could’ve caught him using pico.