A colleague recently asked me, “Have you noticed that the better developers we’ve worked with are also fast typists?” I acknowledged that I had noticed relatively quick typing speed to be a common ...

This bank’s IT group gets a new director, and to the delight of one pilot fish, it turns out he started his career as a programmer. “I thought, ‘Great! Now he’ll understand where us programmers are ...

I recently created a video demonstration of how to do some work at the command line, but as I tried to record my video, I kept running into problems. I'm just not the kind of person who can type ...

Years ago, back in the days when there were "mainframe" computers but very few "home" computers, a typing teacher brought her brand of instruction to the home-computer monitor. It was late 1987, and ...