On the use of comments in code

When it comes to programming, writing comments could often be as important as writing code itself. Even though the comments left in the program will be ignored upon execution, it is important to realize that the software is written to be run by computers, but understood by people. Even the most amazing code needs to [...]

Poems in Linux documentation

Programming is fantastic! Programming is full of art, humour, and creativity. Though sometimes it can be a challenge, and sometimes the monkey is not running (image from n#). Still, Computer Science manifests traditional art forms, and the poetry of programming finds a literal place in the Linux kernel.

Linus Torvalds himself contributed to the discussion with [...]

The sliced bread approach to learning programming

Today at work I introduced a new feature that is exceptionally cool. For a certain reason we need to group database records without primary/foreign keys. The lack of restrictions allows more flexibility to the user, but comes at the expense of uncertainty. The goal was to develop a fuzzy match that would demonstrate an acceptable [...]