The Benefits of Code Review
why to bother and review a trainee’s code? why to bother to review code at all? In this post the author tries to answer these questions
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Unit testing is doomed when it’s an elephant
Ever since Agitar lamentably shut its doors earlier this summer, there have been quite a few postings stating, predicting, or refuting the demise of... more »
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Third Annual State of Agile Survey Data Available
This survey doesn’t try to measure agile adoption, but it gives interesting information on how agile is adopted, how agile projects succeed and how... more »
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Why Can't LINUX Win Against Windows?
an articale disscuss reasons makes linux can not win against windows in the computer world
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Mousers vs. Keyboardists
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Since the dawn of the graphical user interface there has been tension between those that favor the mouse and those that favor the keyboard. I am... more »
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OO Desillusion
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I have read many inspiring books about object oriented programming. I find B. Meyer Object Oriented Software Construction one of the best in the lot.... more »
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7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life, and How to Form Them
If you could just pick one or two (or seven) habits to create in the next few months — habits that will have the most impact on your life — what would... more »
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jQuery.com Site Redesign
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We’ve just pushed out a brand new site redesign (for jQuery.com and all its sub-sites). This has been a long time coming and it feels great to get it... more »
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Why your open source project isn’t getting attention
I have been looking for a place to give back to the Java open source ecosystem for a while now. In that quest I’ve downloaded and looked over a ton... more »
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Ruby Hoedown - What Isn't a Cloud
Robert Dempsey has an excellent talk up on Confreaks where he looks at the Ruby language accessing Cloud computing. As Robert knows, Standard... more »
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Secretaries Make the Best ScrumMasters
Do you believe the title of this post? If you do, don't feel bad, you are not alone. I have been working in project management and around project... more »
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Pay incentives in the tech industry
Slate recently posted an article about incentives in the fruit picking industry and how they can increase productivity. Naturally there is a big... more »
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PHP frameworks? Think again.
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This is the fist time I have heard Rasmus Lerdorf speak and it was entertaining to say the least. Refreshing would another way to describe it, I enjoy... more »
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Great Developers Are Hard To Find, Regardless of Language
Matt Aimonetti has a client that believes Rubyists don't scale. Sorry Matt, your client is wrong. It's as easy to hire great Ruby programmers as it is... more »
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Firefox Proposal: A Better New Tab Screen
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to design interfaces at scale. The amount of time saved when the tasks we do often are... more »
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Microsoft Yet Again Confounds Me In Ways I Never Would Have Predicted - A Trajedy in One Part
I know this will come as a surprise to some of you, but Microsoft Windows really is a terrible operating system. A joke. A bad car accident.
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The Need for java.lang.Thread and java.sql is Gone
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Back in the days of Java1, two cool parts of this new platform was the threading apis and the JDBC apis. These APIs have both had immense success. But... more »
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Does Spring violate JEE spec?
First of all: I'm not against Spring. I've used it for several projects and I think it is a great framework.What I'd like to do is to start a... more »
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How to treat your users like idiots
If there is one thing that is possibly more annoying than software that asks a yes/no question without offering “yes” and “no” as the options then it... more »
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Eclipse Enters Into The Enterprise Arena
With more people realising the power of Eclipse as a Rich Client Platform, it is natural to expect things to move on to the next level. That next... more »
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Life of a Startup Founder
This week, Research To Practice (the startup I'm working on) is reaching a big milestone: our first three big customers are coming on board and we'll... more »
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5 Things to remember when coding in a team
Whenever I tell one of my developers to do something a certain way I always get asked the question "why? doesnt it just take longer?". Well maybe it... more »
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Ruby developers don't scale
During my exile overseas, I came to the conclusion that Rubyists don't scale. Since Twitter became stable again, we don't hear many people ranting... more »
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Funny, some Rubyists are stupider than a piece of wood
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This one for example. He proposes a simple way to make Java developers angry, by showing them some code. His example is 1.... more »
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Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers
Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that... more »
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