When Fellow Developers Tell You "I don't remember/know" and they -Do- Know
I always love it when a fellow developer tells you at times he/she "doesn't recall" or "doesn't know" when you ask them a question (after doing your... more »
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Becoming a remote developer
A moon or two ago, at the alt.net Canada conference, Tom Opgenorth convened a session on working without pants. And since Tropical Storm Hanna is... more »
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How to make your staff more productive
I can understand my client's IT department blocking MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. I might not like it that Twitter is blocked, but I do... more »
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What to do When Your Work is Criticized Publicly
People can criticize an opinion you shared, a new WordPress template you designed, or even a simple question you asked on your blog. Since we spend... more »
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A Little More About Program Management
You, and two other colleagues are managing projects that have interdependencies. In fact, you don’t have a product unless all three of you release at... more »
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Why Should Freelancers Use Mind Mapping?
Einstein once said something to the effect of, “you cannot solve problems by thinking within the same framework or mindset that discovered the... more »
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Managing Multiple Projects is Called Program Management
Some recent posting speak about the difficulties of managing multiple projects at the same time. And how this is not a very good idea. How confusion... more »
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Secretaries Make the Best ScrumMasters..
If you do, don't feel bad, you are not alone. I have been working in project management and around project managers for years. Over that time, I have... more »
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Is RSS killing your productivity?
Are you in the habit of "binging on information"? Have you got more feed subscriptions than you can read in a day? How do you keep on top of all the... more »
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Rewrite or Rescue: Strategy for breathing new life into troubled projects (Part 1)
The first part of a series discussing the strategy behind rescuing Java projects which have a few years of history and cruft. Often these projects... more »
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Arguments against checking in your .project and .classpath files
Quite often I see that the .project and .classpath files are checked into the SCM in a project, which can be convenient if all the developers use... more »
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Avoid the Managed Extensibility Framework
As a .NET developer, you should avoid using the newly released Managed Extensibility Framework as its license prevents its use beyond the Windows... more »
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sharing feeds with friends
Social features for feed readers would be sweet.
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How to report a bug in a Mac OS X application
Bugs happen. It's a fact of life. Although you may not be in the mood at the exact moment they strike, the best possible thing you can do is file a... more »
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Software ideas up for grabs
In case there are any programmers out there who have lots of time on their hands and don't know what to program, here's a few ideas that I'm surprised... more »
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Why I will never own an electronic book
Products like the Kindle from Amazon.com and Sony Reader are becoming more readily available, cheaper and more popular. I will never buy one and if... more »
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A Review - Painting the Web
A book review of Painting the Web, a primer on SVG and Canvas animation
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John Resig - JavaScript Benchmark Quality
JavaScript Benchmarks aren't adapting well to the rapid increase in JavaScript engine performance. I provide some simple tests for verifying this and... more »
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Java arrays and primitive types should (perhaps) be deprecated
I have been brushing up on my Java skills this year. For 2 years I did mostly Ruby and Common Lisp development. I think that Lisp is a great research... more »
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Professional Deployment and Operation of Web Applications
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How professional IT organizations save time and money in deployment and operation of web applications.
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Software Development - Who should be the brand ambassdor ?
Here are some of my personal recommendation if we consider people from "real" world for some of the languages,tools and methodologies we use daily ... more »
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OpenID is too hard
OpenID is one of those web technologies I would love to love: it addresses a need, seems pretty well thought-out, and all the cool kids are doing it.... more »
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Bubble Wrap, Hani Suleiman and Logging Abstraction
Even though Log4J is one of the most widely used logging framework, it's not the best. You've got Logback for example, which was created by the... more »
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