What If Google Suddenly Stops Working?
People tend to complain about the Microsoft monopoly, but they forget that they depend on the company by the name of Google ;-)!
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Working with web developers in India: why, whom, and how
Ryan Norbauer has been there, done that and taken copious notes — where the “there” is his consulting firm, the “that” Indian outsourcing and the... more »
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Code coverage: a tool against unused and untested code
How to cut your maintenance in half by knowing which code to throw away.
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Top 6 underused Eclipse shortcuts for CFEclipse
Similar to Nic Tunney’s Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it... more »
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The problem with "I'll wait until my manager sends me to training"
With all the new technologies coming out, many software developers want to get sent to training seminars. Sometimes "Training" is fun - your company... more »
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JUnit vs TestNG a testing smackdown
Most developers know JUnit. Some know TestNG. You know you sjould write unit tests...but which should you choose? If you already have a suite of... more »
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I'm not a real world developer
I made the mistake recently of reading some of the responses to the 'Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence' letter which I'm sure you've heard about... more »
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Oracle-itis
I don't think Oracle is a totally worthless product. I hear that it's good for carrier-grade high-availability. Of course, I've also heard that it's... more »
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Why are dynamic languages so...static?
I'm frustrated by the glacial pace of evolution we see in the dynamic language space, specifically in the area of parallelism. This article on Ars... more »
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XML: Why Jeff Atwood Is Right
Firstly, I, like many of you, am glad to see that Dare Obasanjo’s indefinite hiatus from the blogosphere was short lived. Secondly, while I most... more »
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This month in bookmarks: June 2008
June was a lively month. In all seriousness, I found some pretty cool stuff in the June bookmarks for Firefox, Design, Javascript and Tools.
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Inherit to Be Reused, Not to Reuse
I'm surprised how often I have to say this to other developers and engineers, but violations of this simple object-oriented mantra seems to be... more »
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Is email in Danger?
Read/Write Web hypothesises that email is in trouble over here:
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Why Javascript Creeps Me Out
In any reasonable language, it would first alert "Hello", and then alert "World". But noooo. Javascript's gotta get all fancy and defer execution... more »
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Flexibility Is Bad Design
What these developers mean by "flexibility" is that the code allows you to do something that currently has no plan to be used. Where is the... more »
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KDE Doesn't Need New Users?? Apparently...
I’m a bit taken aback by this post by Jason Harris over on the KDE Developer’s Journals site. Harris says that ” KDE, like many other open-source... more »
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Should Links Open In New Windows?
Users also don’t like to deal with dozens of opened tabs and some visitors tend to quickly become angry with the disabled back-button. Furthermore,... more »
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Twitter's weakening pulse - The scalability "Penalty"
If we want to be successful we can't afford making scalability an afterthought.
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What do Free and Open Source Software Leaders Think of Microsoft?
Those who responded were Peter Brown of the Free Software Foundation, Jim Zemlin of The Linux Foundation, Richard Stallman, the founder of the free... more »
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Advice to a young programmer
I received a mail from an acquaintance who'd come to the realization that his 13-year-old wanted to be programmer, specifically a games programmer.... more »
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Trend Check on Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX
It’s almost half way into 2008. I think it’s about time to have a reality check on what’s going on in RIA space. Specifically, what’s up with Adobe... more »
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Web Accessibility And Your Business - An Interview With Schalk Neethling
On June 18th 2008 Schalk Neethling, Web Builder Zone Leader, was interviewed on Radio Today concerning the topic of web accessibility and how not... more »
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Namespaces in PHP? Why *wouldn’t* you want them?
Earlier today I say the following tweet on the-often-down-but-always-interested Twitter from Matthew Weier-O’Phinney: “What issues to _you_ see... more »
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Goodbye Java Generics
When generics first came out I was pretty excited. I had used templates quite extensively in C++, before I soured on C++. C++ templates are a great... more »
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My Unit Tests Are Purer Than Yours
There is a hot debate on my project about whether or not our JUnit tests are pure unit tests. What the heck does that mean, pure unit tests? Our tests... more »
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