It seems the world is devolving into Keller MBAs and fake-reality television stars. Bottom feeding Keller MBAs have infiltrated every company it seems. They have the following main mantras Any job which can be done by two people can be done by one at half the cost. Do more with less. “Priced right” is the only qualification that matters. Even if they have a diploma from a different school, if they utter even one of … “Priced Right” Developers Will Put You Out of BusinessRead more
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Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 4
Before I get into more coding on this topic, I need to cover some remedial information. The first is how we center a heading. Even when we had printer spacing charts we would write the text on scratch paper then put a slash every two characters, counting spaces as characters then we would count the slashes. When working with narrow form we would subtract the number of slashes from 40, with wide form it was … Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 4Read more
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Which programming language offers the best job market?
I got sucked into a discussion on Reddit with this very question. No, I don’t hang out on Reddit. I wouldn’t even go there but a couple of technical writing crawlers periodically drop an email with links to things there. So, let’s get a few things out of the way up front: There is no “best language to learn” when the question is asked in a vacuum. There are many different job markets and industries … Which programming language offers the best job market?Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 2
We need to establish a time frame before I start showing any code. Yes, you can go visit Source Forge to pull down what is there if you are well and truly desperate to view it. This portion is more about the journey than the code. xpnsqt The xpnsqt program was originally written around the time IBM sunset OS/2 which, according to this article, spanned the time frame between March 12, 2003 and December 31, … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 2Read more