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The Best Standing Desks for Programmers

Updated: June 5, 2017 Leave a Comment

The Best Standing Desks for Programmers

Do you spend most of your work day sitting down? If you’re like the vast majority of programmers, of course you do.

Unfortunately, spending the majority of your time sitting is very bad for your health. Research has shown that even for people who exercise every day, sitting for ~8 hours has negative side effects that aren’t offset. Even if you’ve taken the initiative to stay active, stay fit, and avoid the pitfalls of a sedentary lifestyle, by spending your work day in a chair you’re hurting your health.

So if sitting is so bad for your health, but you’re a computer programmer, what’s the solution?

Enter the standing desk. Standing desks have gained a lot of popularity over the last decade or so, and they’re a way of avoiding the damage that sitting for too long can do to your body. You already know you’re going to be spending 40+ hours a week behind a keyboard – it’s time to invest in your health by getting a standing desk.

Even if you work in an office, there are solutions that are easily portable and also allow you to move from sitting to standing easily, in case it isn’t always feasible for you to stand all day.

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Filed Under: Productivity, Programming Gear Tagged With: health, standing desk

Reasons Why Programmers Hate PHP

Updated: May 22, 2017 Leave a Comment

Reasons Why Programmers Hate PHP

If you’ve spent any time around programmers, you may have noticed that many are vocal opponents of PHP. In many ways, PHP is the Nickelback of programming languages – somehow widely popular, yet widely hated at the same time. In my experience, most people who defend PHP as a good programming language don’t have much experience with other languages and thus have no basis for comparison. While PHP can certainly get the job done, there’s a lot of legitimate reasons people dread working with it – here are what I see as the top reason why programmers hate PHP.

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1. Popularity Means Widespread Abuse

PHP is incredibly popular and widespread and has been for quite some time. Being the backbone of WordPress is one of the biggest reasons for its popularity – currently 28% of websites are run on WordPress, a number that has been steadily rising.

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Filed Under: Programming Languages Tagged With: PHP, programming

Best Programming Projects for College Students

Updated: March 1, 2017 Leave a Comment

Best Programming Projects for College Students

When you’re a student starting out on your path towards a career in programming, there’s a lot of theory and concepts that you’ll learn in the classroom. While this part of your education is vital, it usually doesn’t focus much on actually putting your skills to use in building an interesting programming project.

As a result, many students turn to doing their own programming projects on the side which is one of the smartest decisions students can make. Here are the big benefits to starting your own side project –

  • Hone your skills. The more you practice and attempt, the better of a programmer you will become. There’s no substitute for experience in programming.
  • Show a hunger to learn. By doing a self-driven programming project, you show prospective employers that you’re driven to succeed and love to learn new technologies. Today, programming languages and frameworks rise in popularity quickly, and employers want employees that can keep up with these new demands.
  • Practice with a variety of languages. While it doesn’t hurt to focus on one programming language for your career, trying several different languages out early on is very beneficial to your understanding of programming. You’ll see different ways languages went about solving the same problems and develop a sense of best-practices. This will also help you guide your career path towards a programming language you enjoy.
  • Build a portfolio on Github. A portfolio of cool projects is always a good thing to be able to show off in an interview, whether you’re going out for your first job or a senior position. By writing code and placing it on a source control site like Github, you start to develop a true portfolio that demonstrates your skills better than any answer to an interview question could.
  • Programming is fun! Often times the book-learning aspects of programming are pretty dry, and some of the projects you have to do in school are not exactly inspiring. By choosing your own project you can pick something you’re passionate about, which will lead to a much better end product to show off.

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