Any piece of development, be it a full-blown system or a small 20-line change, is measured by people on two things, and two things only:
Was it delivered on time?
Does it work?
Your programming peers and other tech types might be impressed that you used some design patterns to create a modular, re-usable approach. They might love [...]
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Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.
The motivation for starting Project Euler, and its continuation, is [...]
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If it’s not the coolest then it’s definitely the geekiest:
http://www.jwz.org/
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If I’m having a bad day at work there is one website that will always cheer me up: The Daily WTF. It’s full of techy humour and never fails to raise a laugh. These two code snippets are from here, you have to be a developer to appreciate these:
void failIfNull(Object o) throws RuntimeException {
[...]
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I’ve had the Flexible Web Development domain for a while now but I haven’t really pushed it at all.
I did write a SEO extension for the Geodesic suite of products a while back and that has sold quite well - the people that have bought it and used it on their Geodesic site have been [...]
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This is impressive. It’s a user’s story submitted to the Worse Than Failure blog. The story was submitted by Noah - one of his relatives had a problem with an expired application that they wanted to use and they wondered if he could help:
http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Classic-WTF-Lock-In-Key-Security.aspx
He quickly gained some l33t hax0r skills and managed to get the [...]
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This code snippet comes from the Worse Than Failure blog. Someone wanted to make super-sure that an enum contained a valid value:
public enum EmailsFormat
{
HTML,
Text
}
…
public static EmailFormat FromEmailsFormat( EmailsFormat emailsFormat )
{
switch ( emailsFormat )
{
[...]
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