User Stories: Three Steps to Better Presentations
As a Scrum Coach, I often take on the role of Evangelist. Monday afternoon, I explained Scrum to the Swiss Java User Group[1]. Although not my first... more »
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Ubiquity In Depth
Ubiquity is an experiment two parts. It’s both an interface and a development platform. Ubiquity 0.1 focuses on the platform aspects, while beginning... more »
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Agile Development: why it rocks, who it helps, and why it's failing
What's up with people complaining about Agile? Do the not know it's awesome?
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Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage
There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is... more »
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Is unit testing doomed?
Andrew Binstock follows up his recent blog posts with a deeper inquiry into why fewer Java developers are unit testing code, and why some may regret... more »
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Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes
Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on really useful WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when... more »
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5 things that suck about weak typing
We all love our scripting languages with its simplicity, elegant and beautiful syntax, and the ability to quickly hack together a solution. One of the... more »
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Threads Don’t Scale, Processes Do
With the multicore explosion in the making, are we going to be running hundreds of thousands of threads in a single program? Erlang programmers would... more »
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Four Things I Would Like My Students to Get
A school computer teacher describes things he wants to teach his students, and none of them is a specific technical skill.
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Design Patterns – Part 2
The observer pattern is incredibly useful, so useful in fact that it has found itself used all over the place in .NET. Underlying the observer pattern... more »
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Oh no its PHP!!!
A few months ago I was doing some job hunting and i’ve come across some interesting job interviews in the process.
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Things I look for when hiring
At a start up, the stakes are extremely high, the work demand is extreme, and you don’t have money or time to make mistakes, especially hiring... more »
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Don't tell me you did that with JavaScript
This week I experienced something that made me feel more confident about the viability of JavaScript as a first-class language in ASP.NET development.... more »
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Functional programming for the Web: Clojure is here
Clojure is a Lisp family, dynamic, functional programming language targeting the Java Virtual Machine, with excellent support for concurrent... more »
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In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism
The July IEEE Computer carries an article arguing for the use of scripting languages as first programming languages, and also arguing for a greater... more »
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Darwin OpenJDK 7 Binaries
To help facilitate user testing, I've built and posted OpenJDK 7 binaries for Mac OS X 10.5 here.
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Why Are You a Programmer?
Why do you program? Have you ever thought twice about it? What excites you about the job?
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Intel, Microsoft converge on parallel computing
Today, the two hardware and software giants announced a joint project to create tools for parallel programming on Intel chips. The tools will be... more »
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Adobe Flex - ActionScript Flexes its Muscles
This blog-post examines ActionScript and JavaScript in the perspective of Object Oriented programming. The article starts with showing how these... more »
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4 Online Handbooks for Web Designers & Developers
via Great resource lists for designer and developers.
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14 Must-read Web Design Interviews
"Below is the list of 14 interviews with web design and development experts. The interviews are nicely confined, and are themselves informative and... more »
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The Showcase of Brilliant Pattern Designs
A showcase of different examples using stunning pattern designs, just open your eyes and watch out for the next pattern.
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Should you test your web developers before employing them?
These past few weeks, I’ve been doing some work for a new client. Prior to getting the gig, I did the all the usual things: sent my prospective email,... more »
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Cilk Wins Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Award
The PLDI paper "Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language" introduced an efficient form of thread-local deques to control scheduling of... more »
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Good Design is not Subjective
In case you haven’t guessed by my recent flurry of posts, I’ve been engaged in some debates in the past few days about design philosophies and why... more »
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