Software startups: success and failures

Larry Smith, the most influential professor I’ve had a pleasure of taking a class with, lectures on economics, and acts as an advisor for many University of Waterloo startups. Being an innovative university that it is, there is no shortage of, at least, attempts at entrepreneurship by knowledgeable and passionate students. Filled with stories of [...]

Junior programmer: earning respect

Clinton Forbes rants about junior programmers, straight out of University, looking for some respect from well established developers at, presumably, their first paid programming position. Having gone through being a graduate developer himself, and later looking down at the same as a senior and lead developer, I suppose that gives Clinton a fair insight.

If you [...]

3 Reasons to not get a Video Gaming Degree

The Australian has published an article, expressing a concern at rush to study for degrees in computer games. You know there are problems when academics are “terrified” over the popularity of their own courses, which is just the case with Queensland University of Technology’s Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment.

The head of the campus’s IT [...]