Since tonight would be the night of my favorite holiday, the Halloween, I would like to share this horrific thing for programmers. Ghost? Nah! Don’t worry, there’s no ghost to appear here. So, what is this horrific thing? Have you ever been in a situation where you’re in the middle of coding a very important program and suddenly, power interrupts? And when you re-boot the computer, you can’t find where did you saved...

Believe it or not (well, I can’t believe it too before), there are traits and personality that are common on programmers. Just a reminder, these are just based on my own observation on programmers I met. I don’t generalized, but I believe in it. The purpose of this post is to help the newbies know if they have same characteristics most programmers have. If none of these is applicable for you, don’t lose hope. It’s...

I just heard that, after a long illness, Dennis Ritchie (dmr) died at home this weekend. I have no more information. I trust there are people here who will appreciate the reach of his contributions and mourn his passing appropriately. He was a quiet and mostly private man, but he was also my friend, colleague, and collaborator, and the world has lost a truly great mind. - Rob Pike on Google+ As a programmer, I want to pay a simple...

One of my former students ask me what is the in-demand programming language now for he want to study it. He said, he wants to get a job easily after he graduated so he wants to study a programming language that will give him a career. I’ve been with the same dilemma when I was still in college. There are times that I want to be a master in Assembly language, or in C, or in Delphi, or in VB, or in Java or Python. In most of the times,...