A Microsoft analyst has won an annual contest celebrating bad writing by comparing fixing carburettors to fondling a woman’s breasts, while an Australian woman was awarded in the children’s category.

Russia’s worst spammer brutally murdered.
via reddit.com.

New IT professionals have trouble finding jobs because of their lack of experience. Yakov Fain has some innovative proposals around University accredited J2EE qualifications based on coursework plus work experience. Slava Petrov thinks the idea is stupid, but I know of plenty of IT professionals (myself included) who don’t start off from a CS [...]

There was a once Truth-Seeker, who after many years of struggle still has not found the true-way in programming. He has mastered MVC, Visitor pattern, and hundreds of patterns but he mind was still in darkness.
His Master, seeing him in despair, instructed him to meditate on how to write good software using Checked [...]