Tag: DEVCHAIR

Subversion is arguably the world's most popular source control system, and many a developer's best friend. It keeps things organized, it helps you gracefully recover from your mistakes, and it makes managing branches and versions of your projects dead simple. What isn't always dead simple is setting up or managing the Subversion repository. Sure, the software is free but, your developer's time ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/10/dev-chair-do-we-want-scientists-or-engineers/";Good computer science graduates do not make good software developers. Really, I mean it. But for the polar opposite reason that these two New York University computer science professors think. When I was in high school my physics teacher once told us, "All physics experiments work. They just ...

If you've taken more than one trip through the work / layoff / resume / work cycle as a developer, you know the temptation; There's always that job just a little too easy to get, and just a little too high paying. Oh, sure, the development environment is about as challenging as beating your 7-year-old cousin in a game of scrabble. And, so what if the closest thing you'll be seeing to the ...