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Which programming language offers the best job market?

I got sucked into a discussion on Reddit with this very question. No, I don’t hang out on Reddit. I wouldn’t even go there but a couple of technical writing crawlers periodically drop an email with links to things there. So, let’s get a few things out of the way up front: There is no “best language to learn” when the question is asked in a vacuum. There are many different job markets and industries … Which programming language offers the best job market?Read more

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JED – Long delay at launch issue

Since the mailing list archive isn’t much in the way of searchable or at least doesn’t seem to be well indexed by search engines I will be keeping a series of posts on my blog with some of the “newer” and more interesting Jed issues as well as various configuration stuff I’ve found useful. Most of you have probably already noticed other posts covering this text editor. When one is working in a terminal it … JED – Long delay at launch issueRead more

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A Bit of Green Bar for Your Blog

Those of us old enough to have worked with actual continuous form printouts have a certain soft spot for printed code. Oh, not on that nasty loose white paper which comes out of our laser printers, but that always in the right order continuous stuff. It made great scratch paper. Most WordPress themes don’t even try to get close to the look and feel for either the <code> or <pre> tags. On rare occasions you … A Bit of Green Bar for Your BlogRead more

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How Many Browsers do You Test Your Blog With?

It was Friday and I spent the morning visiting my father. When I got home I didn’t feel much like doing “real” work so once again I spent time changing the theme on my blog. Been looking for the “right” theme for a while. Don’t know what it is but will know it when I see it. Today I experimented with Blog Way. I actually spent time going through all of the customization options tweaking … How Many Browsers do You Test Your Blog With?Read more

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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 6

The Backup Script As I started to get back into this I realized I skipped one final yet critical piece of the system. The backup script. I imagine some of you questioned where I got the csv files for Postgres to import. As I said, one of the main reasons I went with Postgres all of those years ago is that I was tired of dealing with the oddities of backup and restore with DBF … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 6Read more