When I was in 7th grade, the only thing I had was the QBASIC examples in 3-2-1 Contact--an old monthly magazine. I made a maze game using text to show the individual room layouts. I didn't understand error checking, so the friends of mine who played it were able to beat it by just hitting 2 on the number pad repeatedly.

When I was in college, I wrote a Minesweeper clone in JAVA. It was actually usable.

I'm part of that. I installed Chalet on my laptop last week. I don't like that I have to switch to the virtual console (CTRL + ALT +F1) and back after unlocking to see my mouse. Though it is a neat safety feature.

From the article: An example of a Fizz-Buzz question is the following:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".

It seems like they would give the rules in the question. The name Fizz-Buzz is just that, a name.

Are you sure the problem is with not knowing what Fizz-Buzz is? I don't know what it is, either, and I can write the code for it.

void main (){ for (int i=1; i <101; i++){ if (i%3!=0 && i%5!=0) cout << i; else { if (i%3==0) cout << "fizz"; if (i%5==0) cout << "buzz"; } } }

I work in the banking industry. Most of my time coding is spent writing JS for LiveCycle/Acrobat PDFS and PHP for our online forms.

Day to day for me is a sea of interruptions with the occasional moments of calm when I can work in peace. It certainly keeps things interesting, though I would prefer to get my work done without having to try to chase down my train of thought every ten minutes.

It's a thankless job of I only consider my boss's reaction to my work. Usually, the people who ask for the forms will sent me little notes or emails thanking me for what I did.

The coding side feels like most other IDEs regarding debugging and syntax highlighting. In Webmatrix, you can launch your page in a browser to see immediately what it looks like. If you connect to a remote site (like I do) when you save changes to your work, the files are uploaded to the site.

A question for those out there who have moved from Windows to Linux or visa-versa. I've been managing a website, and in that time I have grown accustomed to Microsoft WebMatrix for coding with its built-in FTP utility. (I really think of it as Adobe Brackets with the ability to upload all of my changes to the site immediately.) Is there anything like that for Linux? I've tried looking at alternativeto.net--usually an easy check to find similar software, but there are only two options there. Both have 5 or fewer likes. Going through Pinegrow (one of the options) I see LightTable and Aptana. Anyone have any suggestions or something they use that handles both tasks in one program?

I had never heard of this until reading this thread. Looks cool.

I'll add my voice to the chorus. I like it. Now, who makes that change? The mods? Have they seen this request?

I hate that I missed out on the JavaScript testing ebook...

I like that this one guarantees that any links I used will only be available for the current slide by moving everything else completely out of the way. I'll definitely check this out.

Haven't had a chance to apply it, yet, but this looks promising. The only concern I have is whether a div being transparent. makes the link in the div inactive. If it doesn't, then I'll just have to do some creative link placement between the different "pictures."

I think of all the stakeholders, the boss (CEO, chairman, etc.) is the only one who is higher than the developers on the list of who has to buy into the project.

All of my coding and scripting happens at a Help Desk. Interruptions every 10 minutes. Fortunately, they're normally short and I can get back on task, but still...

Those are the worst, imho.

In my code, the only variables that don't require a helpful name are i and j. Only because they're counters in almost EVERY program I've written or seen.