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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Dear Asp.Net Developers: Stop Making Our Technology Look Bad
I run Firefox pretty much all the time. I like the plug ins and other features it has but there are times when I am forced, yes forced to open... more »
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PHP 5 CMS Framework Development
This is a review of the latest book from the author of Joomla about building content management systems.
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State of the Semantic Web: Know Where to Look
Those looking for evidence of progress on the Semantic Web do not have to look far. Several major projects and companies are embracing the vision and... 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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Java SE Application Design With MVC
What Is Model-View-Controller (MVC)? If you've programmed with graphical user interface (GUI) libraries in the past 10 years or so, you have likely... more »
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A critical review of the upcomming JSF 2.0 spec
JSF, especially 1.1, got criticized by some Java developers. For JSF 2.0 this critique was taken seriously and a much improved spec is currently being... more »
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7 Email Myths That Plague the Workplace
Myths about how to best do email abound. Some are explicitly stated and drummed into your head, and some are the unspoken expectations of the modern... more »
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Pitfalls to Avoid When Designing Forms
Many web forms are broken, usability-wise. Knowing these problems can make you avoid them when you design your own web forms, so here are some... more »
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NetBeans Is Still Not There
Recently I have had to work a lot with NetBeans. We are working on integrating GridGain management console with SUN VisualVm, so NetBeans is pretty... more »
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Don't Copy a Design — Steal It
Copying someone else’s work will only give yours a chance to become as good as the one you’re copying — and that’s the best case scenario. A copy will... more »
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Software Development Books: Investing In Yourself
I currently have 20 books in my list of recommended books. I’ve read all of those books in the past 2 years, which means i’m averaging about 10 books... more »
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Preposterous Bugs
As a developer you tend to be very sensitive about how software works and how it's not supposed to work. You know that it's hard to write good... more »
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Improve Your Development Lifestyle
My friend JP has always said that man (and woman) was not meant to sit behind a desk 8+ hours a day. We were meant to do physically laborious tasks... more »
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25 Must-Have Thumb Drive Apps for Geeks
With traveling and use of many different computers, many geeks (and geek girls) often find a need to have a uniform set of tools handy wherever we may... more »
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Software Patents are evil, here's why
I was looking for a reference in ADO.NET Entity Framework documentation (via Google) if a Complex type in an EDM could be part of an association... more »
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Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide
If you are a developer thinking of starting your own Web 2.0 business and want to learn more about the business side and business models involved in... more »
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Top Must-Have Tools for an ASP.NET Web Developer
Of all these years, working as a .NET developer, here is a collected and compiled set of tools that will help you out in your ASP.NET projects. Since... more »
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97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
The following are axioms for software architects by software architects. They have been contributed under the Creative Commons, Attribution 3 open... more »
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My Website's SQL Database was Hacked
I received an email from my website manager indicating several errors across different pages. I hate days that start with issues like that, I first... more »
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10 Free Python Programming Books
A list, and descriptions, of 10 great Python programming books that are available in full online.
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Five Best FTP Clients
Whether you do you work on the web, run a home FTP server, or you just prefer a quick download from time to time, a solid, full-featured FTP client... more »
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30 Best Firefox add-ons
As I am one of the many Firefox users I use many of its add-ons which make my work so much easier. And I would like to share with you list of 30 best... more »
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12 Print Magazines for Web and Graphic Designers
There’s obviously no shortage of content online for web designers, but the offline content is frequently overlooked. There are a number of print... more »
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