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Core Hours for Programmers

We’re thinking about implementing Development Core Hours. This article outlines how another company does it:

https://medium.com/@nannerb/development-core-hours-cd60328a4584

The concept is awesome since I know I have a ton of little distractions that can happen throughout the day. And when a developer gets out of his train of thought, it can take a good chunk of time to get back into it.

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When Women Stopped Coding

NPR published an intriguing article called “When Women Stopped Coding,” which surprisingly shows that the number of women in programming fields has dropped significantly. You hear so much today about getting kids into coding and girls coding groups, but I feel like a lack of women is coding is a problem from the 90’s, not now.

It’s sad to see this as a growing issue, the programming fields could always benefit from more diversity.

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PHP: A Great Language to Know

According to W3Tech PHP is used on 82% of websites using server-side programming languages. I had no idea that PHP had such a large market share. In the web development community you hear a decent amount about Rails or Node.

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It makes me feel more special and yet less special. The code I write is more maintainable out of the sheer popularity of the language, meaning there are probably more developers who could maintain any projects I write.