Free book on Node.js programming – over 400 pages!

Enjoyed this reference to “Why you need a programming checklist” from Andrew Shell…

Some things just keep on movin’….

Link to David Brin article

An essay from an Amazon developer looking to improve his skills, he shares his experiences at Amazon in a set of programming rules.

“I’m not a 10x developer….I was not That Guy overachieving on nights and weekends….In summary, I am a 1x developer. I do enough to get by respectably.”

I am going to add these individuals to my RSS reader…good stuff!

A tutorial on COBOL, with links to GNUCobol – neat!

Is there still hope for COBOL programmers?

Recently, Joseph Steinberg noted that the governor of New Jersey put out a call for COBOL programmers to assist in updating or fixing business applications being used by the state for unemployment applications. I last wrote about this in June 2019 , after seeing an article about COBOL expertise being still in demand by financial institutions. I decided to look and see if there were any resources available for someone to get familiar with COBOL. It turns out that Micro Force is a company that has up-to-date COBOL development environments and compilers, OpenSource.com lists several compilers available (gnuCOBOL seems to be the significant one (documentation here)), and there is a beginning COBOL programming book available from Apress. Looks like there may be some opportunity here (at least according to Indeed.com ….).