I need help. I want to improve. I feel that I'm not writing the best unit tests. Can you guys recommend any books or articles where I can learn how especially in Python? I'm more concerned about strategies about knowing what tests to write and when is the best scenario to write them. I really want to be good at development and this area is what I think I'm lacking. I'd really appreciate your...
Google indexes a lot of pages. How does it know that it should crawl a page once it's created or updated?
Hi guys!I want to excel at my job as a programmer. I've been doing it for 4 years now and I really want to be good at it.I hope you guys can suggest habits/concerete things that I should do to be better WITHOUT burning out or being fed up with programming.What tips/suggestions/comments can you share? I hope you can help me. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
I'll be data mining about the usage of the millions of downloadable applications online.
Hi guys,I've been a PHP web dev all my career and I got this new job that involves a whole lot of machine learning. They are using Java too which I'm very familiar but haven't done extensive programming in yet.I want to kick ass at this job. I want to do great work and be proud of it instead of going home everyday feeling mediocre.Please help me do good at my work. What advice/suggestions can...
Hi guys!Let's say my friend and I got a nice freelance job going that pays a lot. I did the software dev and he does the sysad and networking duties. How do we split the profits?To make it a bit more complicated, what if we outsourced some of the tasks. How do we know how much to split?Any help/comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for helping us out!
Just a clarification with (6): I experience this a whole lot. The client always changes scope. Are you suggesting that I don't budge and be firm about the scope agreement?
Also RE:elementary customer service. From what I understand is communicate with the client well (update them always and be responsive so that they won't be in the dark). Is that what you meant?
Again thank you :-)
I have another quesiton that's been bothering me:
Let's say I contacted my old company. I know that there are developers there that knows better than me (with regards to programming). Should I still pursue consulting there? What should I do?
P.S. Let's say I see the project that's going to be done would fit perfectly well with PHP, it's adequate and saves the company money. Then there are the developers that are .NET programmers and they are pushing that although let's say for the sake of argument, PHP would suffice.
I've been a PHP developer for 4 years (not in the US), doing typically normal web development stuff. I was wondering if someone could give me advice on how to break out and start a consulting practice. I love working with people and another motivation for me is to stumble upon a problem that I can build a app for.I'd really appreciate your advice and suggestions. I hope to be successful with...
Hi, is there a website that lists the most used apps for each country? If not maybe a site that lists those in the US or worldwide? Thanks in advance!
Hi guys,The core of my micro startup revolves around a OSS library and I'm worried that my clients can easily implement it on their own or someone else might do it.Has any other startup or businesses been in the same situation? Thanks in advance!
Hi guys,I've been a programmer for quite some time and just recently, I hit a wall. I seem to not enjoy programming the way I used to.I'm thinking about what other stuff do I like or interested in.I remember from my experience that I really like tinkering web servers and I'm very interested in making them perform at their best. I love reading highscalability.com and now I'm wondering, should I...
Hi guys, I found a process that I can automate in hospitals (it's not a critical process with regards with patient's lives). It needs interoperability among hospitals.My questions are: 1. How can I monitize it? Should I sell it to the government agency that governs the hospitals?2. I know PHP and C# and bit of Python. Which language would be more beneficial and easier to sell?Thanks in advance!
Hi guys,I'm a PHP/ASP.NET programmer and I was hoping on learning flask and python more. Hopefully, I can land a job someday.My problem is I don't know what project should I do. I want something that would serve and be valuable to a lot of people.What can you suggest me?I'd appreciate all your comments. Thank you very much.