Resources
10 brilliant educational audio files for programmers and techies
Too lazy to read this article? Here are the main links:
Video podcast – TEDTalks
Podcast – StackOverflow
Podcast – Hanselminutes
Podcast – BoagWorld
Podcast – Carsonified Events
iTunes U – MIT Introduction to Algorithms
Stanford – Future of the Internet
Audiobooks – Steven Hawking
Audiobook – Getting Things Done – David Allen
Audiobook – How to win friends and influence people – Dale Carnegie
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StackOverflow Download Data Schema
Recently the StackOverflow team released a download of their data.
Unfortunately, a schema was not included. Here it is in full:
Users
Id
Reputation
CreationDate
DisplayName
LastAccessDate
WebsiteUrl
Location
Age
AboutMe
Views
UpVotes
DownVotes
Badges
UserId
Name
Date
Comments
Id
PostId
Text
CreationDate
UserId
UserDisplayName
Posts
Id
PostTypeId
CreationDate
Score
ViewCount
Body
OwnerUserId
OwnerDisplayName
LastEditorUserId
LastEditDate
LastActivityDate
Title
Tags
AnswerCount
CommentCount
FavoriteCount
ClosedDate
Votes
Id
PostId
VoteTypeId
CreationDate
How to aggregate all of the answers to your StackOverflow questions into a single feed using Yahoo! pipes
Feed
Here is the feed I create in this article. Add your own user id to the URL to track your own answers by RSS:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ev_bWpYu3hGmnRCJgQSecQ&_render=rss&StackOverflow_UserID=42106
StackOverflow
I am a big fan of StackOverflow. The team there, Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky (and friends) have created an extremely valuable resource which goes some way to solving the many coding frustrations [...]
How you can get ahead by using RSS
In every industry, the person/company with the most information is the person most likely to succeed.
In my industry, which is web site development, things move at a frantic pace, without continually gathering new information, it is inevitable that I will fall behind.
Information Overload
Without a doubt, the Internet is the greatest information source of our time, [...]
Web design in 2009
To make web pages you don’t need the latest software. You don’t need Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 or the latest Microsoft FrontPage.
Pocket the £200 you were going to spend on the software and instead, get a two-output graphics card and a cheap second monitor.
On my machine I already had a GeForce 7800 GT so I just [...]