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Looks like there's a big social experiment going on right here, right now.
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That is one way of looking at it. I like to think of it more in terms of what Mr. Scott Hanselman once said in his interview. The essence was having a constructive online presence in form of blogs, CodeProject, StackOverflow, Asp.net forums is an added advantage both in terms of learning and flaunting the resume.
I don't think crapping on twitter will be helpful in any way....
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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There is one dilemma here.
During the work time, you can't just keep on browsing the tech forums and sites. It would affect your productivity. 
And with very little free time during weekdays, there is not much time at home to spend on browsing.
So there has to be a balance between maintaining a presence in social forums and work activities.
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Exactly. And how often are we told that we have to sell our achievements? That is, behave like chicken - cackling all day: I think of laying an egg later today gack gack gack I'll soon lay an egg gack gack gack I am about to lay an egg gack gack gack I am laying an egg just now gack gack gack I have just laid an egg gack gack gack Earlier today I laid an egg gack gack gack gack gack gack gack gack gack...
And the more you cackle, the higher your rating, the higher your raise.
But actually, chicken aren't rated for their cackling, only employees are. Typical managers would fail managing even a chicken coop.
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Must say, I have learned a lot from CP and StackOverflow, it could not only shine your resume but sharpen your knowledge, because to write something where these many experts readily read and verify needs good amount of fathom.
Happy Programming
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We have a corporate intranet site used internally by all employees. They are revamping it to make it like Facebook (so we can chat with each other, post pictures, "like" things, and so on).
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Yet another reason that the HR department should be replaced with automated scripts.
As a mate once said in the lunchroom to a room full of incredulous, open mouthed stares:
"I come here to make money, not friends"
Ha ha, classic. 
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut
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Twaddle! If that's true, I should be working. QED it's bol*.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Complete bollocks.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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It's quite pricey, isn't it? The Enterprise edition is $1899 per platform, so that's almost 4K for iOS and Android development. That's quite steep!
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin
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This paper is not meant for grading programmers, it was intended to be read by programmers who trust their ability to judge when something is a sign of bad practice, and when it's a consequence of special circumstances.
Signs that you're a bad programmer[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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Oooooh. Not understanding pointers makes you a poor programmer. Complete and utter rubbish - and I speak as someone who cut my teeth on pointers. JavaScript - no pointers. .NET - pointers abstracted away from you. Java - the same.
I've seen some amazing code produced by brilliant developers who wouldn't know what a pointer was if it bit them.
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The page also lumps references in with pointers, and "not understanding references" is kind of a bad thing..
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Unbeatable. Easily the best xkcd I'm yet to view. Thanks.
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut
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He goes on to say that many languages use references in place of pointers, but these only protect against certain kinds of pointer errors. I guess you didn't read the next paragraph having given up in disgust.
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While it might seem a bit paradoxical to think that there could be such a thing as a “good” failure the fact is that some failures lead to better code, better developers, and ultimately a better product.
The Power of Positive Failure[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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I put together some notes for my team, on building some screencasts. I thought they came out fairly well, so I wanted to share with the rest of the world. Note that these are my opinions based on the work that I’ve done with WatchMeCode, PragProg, Tekpub and now with Kendo UI. I know there are 1,000 ways to do any / all of this, and I would love to hear your thoughts on what you do and how you get things done as well. I’m always looking for ways to improve what I do. Great tips for creating video tutorials... like on CodeProject.tv for example.
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I’ve started to become more and more interested in compilers, interpreters and programming language design overall, so i thought of sharing this bunch of stuff i’ve found (and mostly still have to read :< ) that might be useful to somebody… my plan is to update the list as i find more resources. I haven’t (and won’t) include links to official docs because it’s obvious to me that people should look there first  . An interesting reading list that includes things you won't find in books.
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My favorite topic in an introductory differential equations course is mechanical and electrical vibrations. I enjoyed learning about it as a student and I enjoyed teaching it later. (Or more accurately, I enjoyed being exposed to it as a student and really learning it later when I had to teach it.).... Stéfan van der Walt wrote some Python code to animate the system described... Two posts, some math, a little Python and a movie.
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While scientists have crushed the dream of travelling back in time, Git offers control over the fourth dimension when the wrongs of the past need to be corrected. The distributed version control system allows commits to be amended, discarded, reordered and modified to scrub the history of a repository. But, heed the warnings of an experienced time traveller. Git obeys the law of causality; every commit in a Git repository is inextricably linked to the commit before it. Changing one commit alters all the commits that come after, creating an alternate reality. Altering the past can be dangerous... TIME CODING, INC. PULL REQUESTS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.
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"You cannot parse HTML with regular expressions, because HTML isn’t regular. Use an XML parser instead." This statement - in the context of the question - is somewhere between very misleading and outright wrong. What I’ll try to demonstrate in this article is how powerful modern regular expressions really are. Let's look at all the grammars that regular expressions can parse.
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...and then lets make sure we never actually do abhorrent things like that when parser generators will do the same task more flexibly, efficiently, readably and verifiably correctly.
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The next version of Windows is apparently codenamed "Blue," and current rumors are that it will be released some time this year. If it pans out, this would mark the end of Microsoft's three-year upgrade cycle. The first alleged leaks of "Blue" have started to hit the Internet. As is common for early leaks, they're not giving a great deal away. Such leaks tend to fixate on version numbers, and such is the case with the "Blue" leaks. And it looks like... Windows.
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