The “flow” is a state of consciousness experienced from time to time by creative people—musicians, writers, performers, painters, programmers or sportspeople. When someone is in the flow: they lose awareness of time, they become unaware of distractions, they are fully motivated and energized, all worries and doubts dissipate, and they focus totally on one task, as if their mind and [more...]
Version control software (VCS, also known as revision control software, RCM, and software configuration management software, SCM) is a tool used during software development to help track and control the process of making changes to the programming code and other files associated with the application. A software application consists of files of program code plus text [more...]
Most of us are typing on keyboards that use a layout invented before 1870, before touch-typing was invented. We call it the Qwerty layout, because those are the first few keys on the top row of letters. Contrary to popular rumor, the Qwerty layout was not designed to slow down typists. It was designed to place [more...]