Becoming a good programmer is incredibly difficult and it doesn't happen quickly. We can't expect to plant some trees and have 2000-year-old redwoods grow overnight, regardless of the demand for them.

Prior to the last 10 years or so when I've been mostly a full-time advisor, pundit, and columnist, I was a manager. I was a product marketing executive earlier in my career, and a publisher later in ...

Computing professionals are on the front lines of almost every aspect of the modern world. They’re involved in the response when hackers steal the personal information of hundreds of thousands of ...