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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Subversion SCM Tool Becomes More Robust with Version 1.5
It will be easier for software development teams that use the Subversion open source software configuration management (SCM) product to keep track of... more »
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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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Google Q&A on Improved Flash Indexing
Google now offers improved indexing of Flash sites, which is definitely interesting.
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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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BEA gets last laugh on Oracle app server
In Oracle's world nothing changes, everything stays the same and no products ever die. Except those things that get "converged" or downgraded.
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Famous Quotes From Bill Gates - Part 2
My previous article about Bill Gates SQLAuthority News - Famous Quotes From Bill Gates got really lots of readers and got lots of request in email... more »
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Top Ten Reasons You Don't Need a Requirements Document
As I said in Requirements Are Required Reading, the real reason I'm a stickler for requirements documents is that a little extra effort upfront means... more »
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Intel says to prepare for 'thousands of cores'
Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.
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TDD Anti-Patterns
Recently I began to write a paper on TDD Anti-Patterns, and decided to first quickly jot down some of the most common ones that others or myself have... more »
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Free Security Book: HAC
The Handbook of Applied Cryptography is being offered for free download (for personal use of course) from the University of Waterloo. This book covers... 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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What programming language should we teach?
What language (or languages) should we be teaching at the high school level to introduce kids to computer science and programmatic thinking? I’m not... more »
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Continuous integration reduces bugs, increases productivity
Development teams can use continuous integration (CI) to find and fix bugs, share knowledge and generally work better together, Agile coach Jared... more »
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Next Generation Javascripting
But even as Javascript—as well as the HTML elements it has access to— continues to mature, the general perception of what these technologies enable do... more »
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Tech Telecommuters - What's Your "Third Place"?
An article about alternative places for telecommuniting and/or traveling technology workers types to be productive outside of home and work.
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50 Ways To Improve Your Software Project
50 ways for improving your software or be inspired to start programming one.
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Soft skills for the programmer
There is a common misconception that all programmers enjoy fascinating solitary pursuits like solving a Rubik’s Cube or reciting Pi beyond one hundred... more »
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This Word, "Scaling"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya
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Encountering OSGi
By now, OSGi has gained serious momentum in the entire Java ecosystem and I feel that OSGi is a topic that every Java developer should be aware of. In... more »
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Why Stories Work where Requirements Documents Fail
The product manager and developer repeat this approach again and again. After the fifth iteration, the product manager thinks to himself, "Wow, this... more »
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Dangerous New Chris Anderson Theory: We No Longer Need Logic
To summarize what Wired's editor suggests: Correlation is enough. Causation is irrelevant.
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Sergey Is Leaving Google For Microsoft (Not THAT Sergey...)
On Google having a hard time retaining employees...
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My Mixed Feelings about Ruby
There’s a lot of features of Ruby that I like, but there are some that just drive me nuts like blocks not taking blocks and the ampersand operator.... more »
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Amazon thinks Cloud will conquer Man by 2010
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels believes that cloud computing will be commonplace within two years.
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