Programming

Too Old To Code?

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The codist tells a story about being turned down for a programming job because of his age, he still believes that his talents are as sharp as they ever were but that the recruiter upon meeting him made a [...]

21Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 22 comments | Continued

Interviewing Programmers 101 - Part 3

In the murky past I wrote two article about interviewing programmers. The first covered the basics of interviewing itself and gave (hopefully) a good grounding for those who have never had to interview before. The second was all about the kind of testing you can do to filter out candidates before you commit to doing [...]

13Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued

The ‘It just worked’ Scary Programming Scenario

One of the scariest situations when programming is when you write more than 100 lines of code in one go and it ‘just works’. This for me is far worse than it breaking horribly.
However a confident programmer you are there is something very unsettling about things ‘just working’ and it is much more likely [...]

8Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued

Reverse Polish Notation in PHP

My last post about back to basics covered reverse polish notation including a link to a RPN parser which I wrote to allow people to learn by example (best way in my opinion and in yours). The post got quite long and the PHP code was not really relevant to the subject so I have [...]

6Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Back to Basics of Programming - Part 1

Reverse Polish Notation
So why begin with Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)? Although binary is pretty important to the operation of your computer I thought it better to cover a rarely covered subject that is fundamental to how those binary values are processed.
We humans think about mathematics very differently to computers. The way we express a [...]

6Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued

Most Influential Programmers Results

About a month ago I posted my Top 10 most influential programmers which caused a bit of a stir. So I then followed it up with an online poll which I said I would run for a month. The time is up and the final results are in. Linus was the run away winner which [...]

2Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued
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