CSS Tab Designer - for those sweet menus!

CSS Tab Designer is a tool lets you design those gorgeous CSS based menus like the ones above.

It's free - Get it - Highly Recommended! Works only on Windows based systems

Modalbox - the Web 2.0 modal dialogues

ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogues or even wizards (sequences of dialogues) without using conventional popups and page reloads. And yes, it may also be useful for showing bigger versions of images. :)

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Ugly formatted perl code ? Try perltidy

Perl: perltidy is an excellent perl code formatter. It's freely available from SourceForge and provides an extensive range of user-configurable options for indenting, block delimiter positioning, column-like alignment, and comment positioning.

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How to be a Programmer

To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill. But it is really child's play compared to everything else that a good programmer must do to make a software system that succeeds for both the customer and myriad colleagues for whom she is partially responsible. In this essay I attempt to summarize as concisely as possible those things that I wish someone had explained to me when I was twenty-one.

This is very subjective and, therefore, this essay is doomed to be personal and somewhat opinionated. I confine myself to problems that a programmer is very likely to have to face in her work. Many of these problems and their solutions are so general to the human condition that I will probably seem preachy. I hope in spite of this that this essay will be useful.

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Great Programmers Answer

Stifflog got an Idea

With the help of public accessible e-mail addresses I asked 10 questions to a bunch of programmers that I consider very interesting people and I respect them for various things they created. Coming out with question was a 5 minute job for me - these are things I would ask about if I could speak with them personally for, let’s say, 10 minutes, and I didn’t have time for thinking too much. The last two question don’t have anything to do with programming, this is simply something I like to know about everyone I talk to, lets say that’s my hobby. Not everyone wanted to answer them, and that’s fine. It was the first „interview” I ever made, so I also made some mistakes, which went out as people started answering… But despite of this, I learnt a lot of interesting stuff, so it was definietly valuable experience.

And he did just that - Check how the Great Programmers responded