I saved myself 27 minutes a week, and it feels great. It may not be a lot, but it was enough to stop a particular task from being a nuisance.
I work for a publishing company that uses a homespun CMS. One of the features we built is to allow editors to post polls to engage [...]

After I wrote about why you should make your code more readable, I decided to take a snippet of code that I had just thrown together and rewrite it so that its purpose was clearer. The code is from a project that a friend and I built to help us learn about developing for the [...]

When you read an article on programming, most of the code samples are deliberately contrived. But the best samples have a common element: function and variable names very clearly describe their purpose.
That’s not a coincidence. The code is written so that someone reading it can figure out what it does.
But I’m guessing your code never [...]

There’s already a good amount of discussion out there about the need to take breaks to give your body – eyes, wrists, back, etc. – a rest, but not much about how to properly take a break without it messing with your flow.
A lot of programmers seem to be in touch with the idea of [...]

It’s really, really easy to be lazy. If you’re primed to be lazy – and I think most programmers are – then all you need is a little push in the right direction. Or the wrong direction. If you can find any excuse to take the easy way out, you probably will.
What they found, in [...]