Pitching to VCs (comic)

Game Theory, Salary Negotiation, and Programmers

When you get a new job, you can breathe a sigh of relief, but not for long. You have an offer letter in your hand, and it is easy to miss one of the most important opportunities of your life: the starting salary. Here's what to do to increase your chances.

Give your Commodore 64 new life with an SD card reader

Dust off your old Commodore 64, and you could be the coolest kid on the block by plugging SD cards into it instead of floppies.

How wide should you make your web page?

Based on 22500 unique IP addresses over the past week.

How to run a linux based home web server

Sometimes you need complete control over the server, and don't want to pay $20 to $40 a month for a VPS. In this article, I'll describe step by step how to set up a home web server using Ubuntu, capable of handling modest spikes in traffic.

qb.js: An implementation of QBASIC in Javascript

Play NIBBLES.BAS in your browser. I re-implemented a small part of QBASIC as a compiler in Javascript, so it runs in a webpage.

The simple and obvious way to walk through a graph

At some point in your programming career you may have to go through a graph of items and process them all exactly once. If you keep following neighbours, the path might loop back on itself, so you need to keep track of which ones have been processed already.

Five essential steps to prepare for your next programming interview

They put you in a room, give you a problem, and stare at you while you fumble around with markers on a whiteboard for 45 minutes. With a little preparation, you'll look like a pro.

A simple command line calculator

A textbook example of recursive descent parsing.

My thoughts on various programming languages

Some ill-informed remarks on various programming languages.