What old-school programming skills are you glad you don’t need today? Tell us in the comments. Esther Schindlerhas been writing about technology since 1992, and she started programming in 1973.

Optimize your Java code with these five functional programming techniques ...

Functional programming techniques can be used in conjunction with lazy binding to rather easily and compactly express the complex multi-valued dependencies we require.

ADAPT: Analysis Driven Agile Programming Techniques A growing body of research indicates that aid agencies are most successful when able to operate flexibly, particularly in fragile environments.

Neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, seems almost mystical based on its name alone. However, it’s a real approach that has garnered both ardent supporters and skeptics over the years — so ...

I just wanted to make programming techniques based on static type safety and abstraction affordable, teachable and applicable to systems programming.

Most modern programming techniques descend from a 60-year-old computing paradigm which stipulates, among other things, that all programs must run one step at a time–not good for handling ...