Startup Equity For Employees
2020 PREFACE: I originally wrote this back in the mid-2000s and have resurrected it by request.
Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Zero Zero
I've been thinking about something that we always did junior year when I was on my high school soccer team. When we'd score a goal, we reali...
Yosefk - My history with Forth & stack machines
My VLSI tools take a chip from conception through testing. Perhaps 500 lines of source code. Cadence, Mentor Graphics do the same, more or less. With how much source/object code?
What non-technical users don’t understand about your software
If you are writing consumer software you have to understand that you and your average user have a very different level of understanding of computers. When you first start doing support it can be a …
Math library functions that seem unnecessary
Functions include in the standard C math library that seem unnecessary at first glance and why they are necessary.
HTML5 Rocks: A resource for open web developers
Because HTML5 and its related technologies cover so much ground, it can be a real challenge to get up to speed on them. That’s why today we'...
Everything You Already Know About SEO
The basics of SEO are stupidly simple; and it seems like everyone knows – or at least pretends to know – those basics. Still I get asked about SEO pretty often. I don’t consider myself an expert, but I’ll share what I know, and hopefully it will help some people. I’ll be talking Google-centrically because
Daring Fireball: Apple's Pricing Advantage
The nascent mobile computing market has much more in common with the traditional consumer electronics market than it does with the PC industry, and that works very much in Apple’s favor.
Visual Studio 2010 released
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A table that should exist in all projects with a database
Links to social profiles of Ioannis Cherouvim
The Mac App Store isn’t for today’s Mac developers
Apple’s recently announced App Store for the Mac is a Really Big Deal™, for reasons I’ll get to in a moment. But a lot of existing Mac developers have pointed out major issues or unknowns that need to be addressed:
Nuke’em Till They Glow – Quitting My First Job
I started working when I was 14 (I lied about my age) and counting four years in the Air Force I’ve worked in 12 jobs. I left each one of them when I was bored, ready to move on, got fired, or lear…
Now this is how you pitch your product to an open source company
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