Read: Norris Numbers

The differences between different skill levels of programmers can be staggering. This great article talks about more of the code organizational/architectural aspect of coding.

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.html

- Danial Goodwin -

Read: Better Languages For This Generation

As a side-hobby, I'm creating the ultimate language that starts from scratch and questions everything. And, I've found two languages that come really close. So, that's why I deem them for "this generation". ;)

Haxe and Ceylon.

I couldn't do justice for them in a small blog post. And, their websites already explain them really well. So, I recommend taking a few good minutes to find out what you're missing and how much better your language could really be!

http://haxe.org/

http://ceylon-lang.org/

- Danial Goodwin -

Read: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken

A great reminder that even the simplest code can have bugs that aren't found for year or even decades in this case!

Remember the integer overflow.

Source: Google Research Blog - Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (2006-06)

- Danial Goodwin -