What we learned last week
How do you discourage users from clicking on the delete button? Find out in The opposite of Fitts’ Law
Want to improve Linq to SQL performance? Jeff Atwood has some tips.
Web Science takes a big step forward with the formation of the Institute of Web Science
How To Use ASP.NET Forms Auth with SQL Server on Windows [...]
When is a programmer not a programmer?
Jeff Atwood wrote an insightful article called ‘The non-programming programmer’ recently about the lack of skilled programmers. It struck a chord with me as my husband’s technical director had to create an online test to ensure potential candidates could actually do what they said they could do. All but one got 4% or less, which [...]
Sourcing the best coders…
Posted by sara on February 24, 2010 · View Comments
I’m surprised that there aren’t more instances of online Chinese Whispers. In this instance I came across an article by The Guardian called ‘Will an algorithm pick you for your next coding job?’ which is actually a commentary on an article by Matt Biddulph, former CTO of Dopplr and currently at Nokia. So now I’m [...]
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