Plagiarizing code for computer programming assignments

Plagiarism is a serious issue in education, computer science in particular. It is the deadly combination of a confused student with ease and availability of sample source code, that facilitates such behaviour. I already wrote on the issue of Plagiarism in Education, examining the motives, means, and consequences. Today I am forced to bring up [...]

More on Video Game and Programming jobs

Some people have such a wealth of wisdom, that their insightful comments deserve to be turned into a blog post. Ilya Grigorik is a fellow University of Waterloo student, 9rules member, and a Ruby developer. I am surprised I have not yet met him in person on campus. I was also pleasantly surprised to find [...]

are Google Trends flawed? Altered search history spotted

A fellow Ruby enthusiast was commenting on trends in Ruby on Rails popularity, prompting me to revisit my own article on a similar topic. I was shocked to discover that since just two weeks ago, Google Trends has noticeably altered search history information!

Trend searches in question were taken for XHTML and Ruby on Rails, limited [...]