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I am a programmer and have been destined to be so ever since I was a wee lad, barely knee-high to a grasshopper as my grandpappy may have put it. Yet all the hacking, late nights copying code from C64 programming magazines, dabbling and schooling doesn't really prepare you for the work force. When I started my career I felt small, green and somewhat terrified.

The work force exerts certain demands and pressures that just can't be duplicated in school and that isn't even considering the managerial/political side of office life. Programmers that have been in the field for more than a decade have priceless experience, the kind of experience that can't be bought.

Luckily many older and wiser developers are freely sharing advice gathered from years of experience. These blogs are not concerned with the bits of programming, more the aspects of being a programmer and managing programmers. The all have great information on them so I suggest you fire up your RSS feed readers.

Joel on Software

http://www.joelonsoftware.com

This blog is probably the staple of my programmer diet. I really started paying attention to this blog once I found out Joel was my managers personal hero. Joel is pervasive, if you have searched for anything software related on Google you have probably already read a few articles.

There is a ton of good information here for managers and developers both, and many of Joel's rants/essays have been converted into book form (or you could just browse through the archives). Beware though, I always find that when I start to read articles on Joel's site they usually link to other articles that I want to read... before you know it you are twenty links deep and half your day is gone!

• Some of Joel's Favourite books
• Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)
• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html

Rands In Repose

http://www.randsinrepose.com/

I found out about this site from Joel when he reviewed by author titled Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineer Manager. I began to explore around his archives and I found some really good info in there, I am sure I will waste much time in the near future catching up on many of his old posts.

• A Glimpse and a Hook
• N.A.D.D.

The Codist

http://www.thecodist.com

The Codist is less pervasive than the aforementioned blogs and is less centered on development wisdom, but contains some good stuff nonetheless.

• Programmer Job Ads: It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's SuperCoderCoolMan!
• The Stupidity Of Interviews

The easiest way to dynamically change menus at runtime is to link the menu in the nib to a variable in your class. This is relatively easy todo if you are connecting a non-submenu item:

• Create an IBOutlet variable:
  

  IBOutlet NSMenu *clientMenu;

• Drag the header file for the controlling class onto the nib
• Instantiate it in instances and make the connection (make connections by holding ctrl down and dragging from one object to another).

But if you want to connect to a submenu it is harder because there is not graphical representation that you can connect it to. The solution here is to use the outline mode.

For my master's thesis I need a handyboard to control both a small robotic experiment and a computer that records data. There are many small glitches that I have run into and I will be posting them here so other users of the handyboard can use what I have learned.

This is a snapshot of the nedit 5.2 cvs tree that I have added export functionality to. For the moment it can only export to color HTML but color postscript might be added as well.

If you want to download the original nedit or find out more information about it, go to http://www.nedit.org