How to Price Your iPhone App out of Existence
bloid 
via losingfight.com
I’m always told to start a speech with a good story, so I assume you’re supposed to start a blog entry with a bad story.
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If you cannot afford to test it, you cannot afford to sell it
AlvinAshcraft via jeffreypalermo.com
In software, everyone agrees that testing is good, but there is a lot of disagreement on the level of testing that is necessary. Fortunately, there... more »
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Why developers prefer Macs
bloid via infoworld.com
When Terry Weaver wants to create .Net applications, he fires up Visual Studio and types away like any other .Net programmer. The setup gets a bit... more »
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The fallacy of IRepository
bloid via ayende.com
The cause for this post is a post by Rob Conery where he suggests removing the RDMBS from the equation, at least during development. In particular, he... more »
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Known criticisms of PHP or "how to bash a language"
A lot of things have changed since PHP 2.0 most of them for the better. But many of its faults will not be changed or cannot be changed.
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Software Developer's Dilemma: Is Being A Sales Engineer a Cop-Out?
Sure, the die-hard developers snigger at the idea, but the upsides are enormous. (How does $130k sound?)
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Consequences of a Star Trek-like Computer
Star Trek, along with other science fiction futures, has given us many things, apart from a vision of humanity that is hopefully a little better than... more »
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Web Applications and Software Security
bloid via informit.com
Is Web application security commanding too much attention at the expense of other security issues? Gary McGraw argues that by understanding the... more »
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Sigh… Why Must Microsoft Keep Disappointing Me
As some of you may already know, i only use a Mac at home. I have Parallels installed with a virtual Windows XP that i only use to run Visual Studio... more »
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Myth #5: Rails is hard because of Ruby
I've talked to lots of PHP and Java programmers who love the idea and concept of Rails, but are afraid of stepping in because of Ruby. The argument... more »
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Floatitis Part 6 : Rounding Up
It's been a while since I started this series on prevention of float abuse. This final part will summarize the things discussed in short but will also... more »
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C. Enrique Ortiz: The Decline and Fall of Agile
bloid via weblog.cenriqueortiz.com
Software development projects are a hard thing; not necessarily because of the software, but because people are involved.
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Being Joe the Software Plumber
Infrastructure is to software what plumbing is to a house. In this article, I'll discuss how to design and evolve infrastructure within a software... more »
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Martin Fowler: Service Custodian
Let's imagine a pretty world of SOA-happiness where the computing needs of an enterprise are split into many small applications that provide services... more »
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why do we violate law of demeter?
bloid via selikoff.net
I was watching a Google Tech Talk on Dependency Injection. Sixteen minutes in the speaker gave an interesting example of the Law of Demeter: If... more »
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5 Tips for Better jQuery Code
I've been coding using jQuery since shortly after it came out, and well -- I've been using it almost every work day. Here is a few tips that have... more »
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The Decline and Fall of Agile
bloid via jamesshore.com
It's odd to talk about the decline and fall of the agile movement, especially now that it's so popular, but I actually think the agile movement has... more »
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PHP is a skill not a profession
A few years ago a friend of mine tried to convince me to learn ASP.NET because it was much better for my career than PHP. Not because ASP.NET is... more »
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Agile is falling, like religions do
Agile is not a religion, however, both Agile and religions are non-ideas. Also referred to as the third value of the propositional truth trichotomy,... more »
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Java and those frameworks: Do Java frameworks produce more bloatware than a real benefit?
bloid via javabeans.asia
I think first as a developer, one must understand the pros and cons of the framework, and how will it affect the performance of the application to be... more »
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The Guru Myth
bloid via toomuchcode.org
Anyone who has worked in software long enough has heard questions like this: I'm getting exception XYZ. Do you know what the problem is? The... more »
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Your Favorite NP-Complete Cheat
NP-complete problems are like hardcore pornography. Nobody can define what makes a problem NP-complete, exactly, but you'll know it when you see it.... more »
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Don’t catch exceptions if you are not going to handle them
We all know that exceptions are not supposed to happen. Still we catch them so that if they do happen, we can take some steps to prevent additional... more »
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Is Java Becoming Irrelevant?
With the growing trend towards dynamic languages hosting on the JVM and Sun's financial problems growing, is Java (the platform) becoming irrelevant... more »
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Sun's Layoffs, Anil Gadre, and What happens to Java now?
bloid via broadcast.oreilly.com
Sun is all about JAVA. While they might try to tell you that they have a diversified portfolio of strong products in the server market, you should... more »
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