Guest author Sarah Novotny is a technical evangelist and community manager for Nginx. A wise person once said that you build what you know, and you know what you build. While these weren’t the exact words uttered by computer programmer Melvin Conway in 1968, the sentiment is there. His sociological observation, dubbed Conway’s law, posited that […]
Tag Archives: programmers
Job No. 1 In Open Source: Making Sure Others Can Understand Your Code
Talking about code is just as important as writing it.
Why Women Stopped Coding in the 1980s
Stereotypes triggered an engineering gender imbalance.
History’s Female Programmers Will No Longer Be Forgotten
Remembering the pioneers.
Meet The Python Programmers Who Taught A Fish To Play Pokémon
Behind the scenes of the viral Twitch stream.
China Will Change The Way All Software Is Bought And Sold
It’s all about open source.
Does Silicon Valley Look Like “Silicon Valley”?
ReadWrite takes to the streets of SoMa to get past Hollywood stereotypes. Why geeks wear what they wear will surprise you.
How Ads In Mobile Apps Could Send Facebook’s Revenue Soaring
Facebook now has products akin to those that sent Google’s ad sales to the moon.