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It depends on what I am doing. I prefer working at night between 10pm and 3am. This is the most quiet and solitary part of my day. Of course there are tradeoffs for fatigue but beer tends to make it all better. You have to try different things to find out what works for you. It just takes time.

I am primarily a .net developer so my tools are Microsoft related except for front end development. I use webstorm, grunt/bower/yeoman and npm for front end development. For .net and sql I use sql data management studio, visual studio 2010 and 2012 with resharper. Check out jetbrains products. Tehy probably have something that can help you with C++

Did you write some code that makes a get request to that url? I think a simple page with a jquery get or xmlhttprequest etc should get you started.

ContextUnavailableException: Insufficient information to be able to provide a meaningful response. Please provide more information about the "JSON challenge"

Quite frankly this falls under the great category of "why didn't I think of that". I like this idea and the website is beautiful. Please make with the mobile app that automatically provides directions to the job you applied for on the website. Well done you guys.

I had an Apple IIe(2e).

Must have features for me are code completion "intellisense" to borrow a term. Proper and diverse syntax highlighting, Function/Method signature helpers, code/file navigation, and a clearly defined layout of the interface. Additionally, the IDE should have a clearly defined purpose and all utilities and support functions should reflect this. SOme good examples IMO are visual studio, and jetbrains IDEs of which I primarily use webstorm

One website immediately comes to mind. Jetbrains.com It depends on what you want but for $90 i have found much that is useful there.

This quote right here, "Create some kind of website or tool or project that people can see, use, and get a feel for your abilities" - throwaway420, will serve you well.

This is called the never ending or perpetual side project. It represents your capability at any given time if you keep it current. Add new technologies to it. Make new versions of it all of the time. I have personally had interviews succeed on the strength of this project alone, based on my ability to talk about its structure.

Build any project for anyone who will let you(any brochure website is great), using the skillset you wish to develop. If all else fails, build some apps for android or ios. All the challenges of real programming(because it is) with the potential for some actual side money(just a bonus, not the reason to do it).

Finally, it takes time and perseverance. Persevere in the path towards gaining and being able to demonstrate practical and conceptual knowledge. Giving up is the quickest route to failure.

You are not the only designer who prefers pen and paper. While I am more of a programmer than anything else, I know my way around photoshop. I am also a fair hack with a pen(customavatars.reddempire.com), and prefer a pen and paper when starting a sketch rather than drawing with a tablet for example.

I haven't written the bookmarklet and the site is going through a redesign to use an API but what you just mentioned is my bookmark manager that doesnt require you to be registered or logged in to explore it. It is called Mark my place and it is located at www.markmyplace.com. If you begin to use it I will take into account any changes you want for the redesign. The redesign is supposed to shift everything to the website's front page, and be completely driven by AJAX but if you look at it you can see the potential. It would be nice to have a user to develop for who wasn't just me. Thanks for your time.

My love for programming is due to an insatiable desire to learn and synthesize knowledge into new forms, to apply concepts across different domains, and to generate interesting things with a computer. Being paid for it is a necessary incidental.

I am interested. I also have a small hobby project that I am working on. I don't want to call it a start up yet. I would like to take part in this.

While the OP may be making a joke, it is indeed in poor taste to actually make this joke given his revelation of his condition. Sometimes you just don't need to make the joke out loud.

www.markmyplace.com - I wrote this as an exercise to teach myself how to build an application from start to finish. This is the third iteration, and while a bit crude, it contains all of the resources I have found while learning programming and related topics. It also has a good deal of the random things in it that interest me. If it is related to programming and was useful to me in some way it is probably in there. Hit the tags and find some stuff. Any suggestions to improve it would be great too.