Tag: programmers
Bluefish-The Feature Rich Editor
This light and fast open source editor, best suited for Web development, is available across multiple platforms and supports many programming languages. The editor...
Joy of Programming: Why is a Software Glitch Called a ‘Bug’?
In this column, we've always covered unusual and interesting technical topics. This month, we discuss the word "bug", and the history behind its use...
FOSS is __FUN__: The Best IDE
In any forum that talks about programming, a frequent topic is, "What is the best IDE for the language/framework under discussion?" This often leads to...
Joy of Programming: Scope, Lifetime and Visibility in C
Often, programmers confuse the scope, lifetime and visibility of variables. So I'll cover these three important concepts in this month's column.
Whenever you declare a...
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 4
Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic...
Joy of Programming: Types of Bugs
In this column, we'll look at four types of bugs, named after popular scientists. The classification is interesting -- we'll understand how strange bugs...
