May 6th, 2010 () software development, studies › illotus › No Comments
I think learning new programming languages is both easy and very difficult. Syntax is nearly always easy, but understanding when to use a language and what are its strong points. Failing at this leads to the familiar “when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” On the other hand I [...]
December 26th, 2009 () software development, studies › illotus › No Comments
I’ve been reading the Coders at Work during Christmas and one thing keeps nagging at me: the expertise of the interviewed programmers is narrow. There are a few who are more of the Jack-Of-All variety, but most just have mostly done one thing, but done it a lot. This kinda leads to thinking how much [...]
