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What programming terms have you coined that have taken off in your own circles (i.e. have heard others repeat it)? It might be within your own team, workplace or garnered greater popularity on the Internet. This question serves in the spirit of communication among programmers through sharing of terminology with each other, to benefit us by its propagation within our own teams and environments.

Pokemon Exception Handling ftw

A forum post asking on ways to improve coding skills.

Working with people far smarter than myself Always listening to what others have to say, regardless if they're junior, intermediate, senior or guru. job title doesn't mean anything. Learning other frameworks/languages, and seeing how they do things, and compare that to stuff that I already know Reading about patterns, best practices, and then examining my old stuff and applying those patterns where necessary Pair programming Add Sticky Note | Remove Deciding TO be a 'Jack-of-all-Trades' never stop learning. Read code written by different people. Write documentation for code written by other people.

Learn web design and programming (or iOS programming) in an online interactive environment.

Program to create animations using HTML, CSS, and javascript.

This is an easy to understand article about the Promise pattern for Javascript. It is a way to have a 'continue with this function when this previous one succeeds' that doesn't involve nesting functions. The jqXHR objects returned by $.ajax() as of jQuery 1.5 implement the Promise interface, giving them all the properties, methods, and behavior of a Promise.

An interesting article that discusses why exactly lazy programming is bad. Bad, I say!

Cool task manager program launches publicly after being in private beta for a year. Real-time and very easy to edit tool.

Basecamp's task management program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-GIZ5sFak4 (start at 2:30)

An explanation of how to get an accurate z-index reading in all major browsers using javascript.

Google announces a new programming language (Dart) as a possible javascript alternative.

An iPad app for coding? Looks kind of cool.