We were asked, "What were your greatest stumbling blocks as a new manager?" Paige’s article is a terrific introduction to t...

Leaders: Smart-but-evil versus Dull-but-good?   Who's better in a leadership position, a smart but evil person or an unintelligent ...

I was asked, "What are the best life hacks for extremely introverted people?" Call it a hack if you like, but what helped me ...

A young programmer asked me, "How can I become a software developer who only designs the whole software architecture and gives instruc...

Every March, the USA goes wild with something called "March Madness," a pair of college basketball tournaments. The format of the...

Here was the question: "How do I fix a really difficult bug in programming?" Here was my first answer: There is no su...

I was asked, "As a coder, what is the most insidious bug you have ever come across, and how did you find it?" It’s really har...

You'd think that after publishing books for half a century, I'd know how to write a book. If that's what you think, you'd be...

Ir's a new year, so let's start out with something fundamental, cleaning up something that's bothered me for many years. ...

We were asked, "How can I tell if my code does extra unnecessary work?" To answer this question well, I’d need to know what you...

We were asked, "Which code is more readable, one that uses longer variable names or short ones?"  Maybe some historical persp...

We were asked, "What was your first week like at your first software engineering job?" In June, 1955, I went to work for IBM ...

I was asked, "Do programmers really know how to program?" I believe this question is unproductive and  vague. What does it me...