Justin James offers a TechRepublic member (who is a network admin and a self-taught programmer) advice about how to launch his programming career.
Five tips for starting a programming career
- Date: February 8th, 2010
- Author: Justin James
- Category: Career, Career Advancement, Programming
- Tags: Job, Programming, Justin James, Professional Development, Development Tools, Career, Software Development, Software/Web Development
Poll: How do you show your programming skills as a job candidate?
- Date: February 5th, 2010
- Author: Justin James
- Category: Career, Programming
- Tags: Job, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Justin James
Do you show off your programming skills to potential employers by bringing demo apps or code samples or by taking online tests? Let us know.
Employ smoke tests at the start of your testing process
- Date: February 1st, 2010
- Author: Erica Henson
- Category: General
- Tags: Software, Job, Test, Tools & Techniques, Mainframes, Management, Servers, Hardware, Erica Henson
The most basic tests any software developer must run are smoke tests, which are a set of written, non-exhaustive tests that only deal with the most functional aspects of a software application or process.
What the iPad means to developers
- Date: January 29th, 2010
- Author: Justin James
- Category: Application Development
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Smart Phone, Laptop Computer, iPad, Apple iPad, Appcelerator, iPhone Ecosystem, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics
- Special Reports » See more posts on: Apple iPad
Developers who want to leverage the Apple iPad to drive additional application downloads should read these key considerations.
Create efficiency with centralization in distributed development
- Date: January 29th, 2010
- Author: Mary Weilage
- Category: Development
- Tags: Centralization, Team, Strategic Planning, Team Management, Organizational Structure, Human Capital Management, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
If you're interested in learning how centralization can help distributed development teams be more efficient and save time and money, register for this TechRepublic Webcast.
Review of dotTrace 3.1 performance profiling tool
- Date: January 25th, 2010
- Author: Justin James
- Category: Application Development
- Tags: Performance, Tool, Profile Information, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Capital Management, Development Tools, Software Development
Developer Justin James says that, if you're looking for an alternative to the Visual Studio profiler, give the dotTrace 3.1 performance tool a look.
An introduction to iPhone app development
- Date: January 22nd, 2010
- Author: Mary Weilage
- Category: Development, Mobile Devices
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mary Weilage
Download the first chapter of iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach looks at iPhone functionality, the Cocoa frameworks, Objective-C programming and the iPhone SDK 3, and more.
Poll: Do you have access to essential development tools?
- Date: January 20th, 2010
- Author: Justin James
- Category: Development
- Tags: Development Tool, Application Lifecycle Management, Tool, Productivity, Justin James
Do you feel like you have access to supplementary development tools and systems to do your job? Answer this poll question to let us know.
Code concepts: LINQ's expression trees
- Date: January 19th, 2010
- Author: Justin James
- Category: .net
- Tags: Expression, LINQ, Expression Tree, LINQ Statement, Expression Object, Func, addAmount, Expressions Tree, Justin James
In this overview about LINQ's expression trees, Justin James shows how you might use expression objects in your projects.
Poll: Do you use open source code in your apps?
- Date: January 14th, 2010
- Author: Justin James
- Category: Code, Open Source
- Tags: Developer, Open Source, Justin James
A benefit of open source code is that other developers can use it for free, yet it doesn't seem like many developers do so. Do you use open course code?
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