Patenting Open Source Software
Patenting FOSS may help in some cases, but the nature of FOSS development itself may mean that patenting some collaboratively developed... more »
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'But Where Should I Go, What Should I Do?'
This is exactly what many developers are left thinking when their dependent application is stripped away from the proverbial teat that of... more »
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Stupid Questions and n00bs: 10 Intriguing Things You Should Do
It really doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in this industry or which position you hold, understanding generation n00b and the value it... more »
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In case of emergency, System.exit
Article covering the System.exit method and why it is advisable to avoid using it unless absolutely necessary.
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A perspective: developers vs Microsoft
Most people understand that Windows is used by a variety of people who have a variety of needs, ranging from corporate server to... more »
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Certified Agile: the PMI-ACP Exam
What's the point of PMI's Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification? What's it like to sit for the exam - and what do you need... more »
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Legacy Code Preservation: How Do We Manage This?
At an insurance company, I encountered an application that had been in place for thirty years. Classic flat-file, mainframe COBOL. And... more »
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The Hybrid Cloud Will Transform Disaster Recovery
Enterprises spend billions every year maintaining (and powering) duplicate racks and even entire data centers, solely for occasional... more »
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Why Most Agile Adoptions Fail
This short video introduces some ideas that will help us map why we can’t get agile going and take effective steps to actually succeed with it.
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The Twisted Personality of the Software Tester
Software testing truly is an altruistic endeavor. Being willing to stand up for quality in the face of a development, business or... more »
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The Ship Show: Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?
Version control is becoming a ubiquitous part of the “DevOps movement,” and we talk through what level of understanding should be... more »
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Using Twitter as an Emergency Broadcast Network [Infographic]
We have seen it more often than not lately, and many of us have been taking it for granted: Twitter as the place to go for rapid... more »
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Is Agile Always Appropriate?
This article describes a recent experience with a software development project trying to adopt the Agile methodology without enough... more »
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When to use Abstract Class and Interface in Java
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Classical Object oriented design interview question, mostly asked in Java as difference between abstract class and interface in Java.
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Learn A New Programming Language Every Year?
As I thought about it I realized that it isn’t important for it to be a language that you learn, it is just important that you learn... more »
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Bad Advice: “Stop Working So Hard”
Would we ever want to live in a world where working harder didn’t amount to anything more, but rather ended up returning you less?
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The Sorry State of the Anti-Software Patents Movment
Paul Hammant takes a broad look at the anti-software patent organizations, old and new, and where we are right now in the process of... more »
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The Missed Opportunity of Coursera
Instead, Coursera should abandon scheduled terms and have standing classes.
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How Change Initiatives Damage Organizations and Fail
A simple (and misunderstood) way people think of their change initiative like this: Their organization is just sitting there, ready to... more »
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Why I chose Go for Nuuton
Building a search engine is no easy task. There are many problems that one has to attack. It is quite the challenge. Search engines... more »
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Which restaurants violate health codes and other insights from open data
Last week the Obama Administration announced its Open Data Policy, which requires federal agencies and departments to make their data... more »
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JAX Magazine May - Back into the clouds, talking OpenStack, Stratos and Kotlin
Available as a PDF, on iPad and on Android, the latest edition of our free JAX Magazine is now ready to download!
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Book Review: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
Nate Silver is famous for having correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states in the 2012 United States elections and Sid recommended... more »
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Open Source Software Helped Obama Win the 2012 Election Campaign
One reason Obama won the 2012 presidential election was his staff’s use of open source. Harper Reed, CTO of Obama for America, tells all.
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Dev of the Week: Michael Sahota
This week we're talking to Michael Sahota, Certified Scrum Master, active member of the Agile community, and co-organizer of Agile Tour Toronto.
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