When people don’t understand GPL and LGPL - or - ExtJS is history
The people behind ExtJS are funny. First they have changed their license to the LGPL, without understanding it in any way, now they’ve changed it to... more »
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What Makes a Great Developer?
What makes a truly great developer? Some might say a positive attitude. Some might say a high-sugar, high-caffeine, high-bacon diet. Some might say an... more »
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The Mobile Market That Isn’t? Russ Closes Mowser
For years we have heard about the huge opportunity the mobile web offers developers. With billions of handsets in service, if even just one percent... more »
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CSS - An Absolute Mess
It's no wonder that beginners to CSS often throw their hands up and revert back to using tables because some bug or other has thrown them off course.
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CSS Variables
It’s something that many people have been asking for and wanting for some time now and finally it looks like variables are going to be making their... more »
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College degree better than experience
Short of finding someone who has both the degree and the experience would you hire someone with a degree and no experience or someone with experience... more »
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How-to: Optimize your site for speed
Does your website load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? If not, here’s a detailed set of proven guidelines aimed at improving the... more »
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How do you store a tree in a database table? Part 2
First, let me thank everyone that commented and read the last blog, “How do you store a tree in a database table?” The feedback was great and helpful... more »
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Is UML on the way out?
One of the presenters at QCon (I think it was John Davies) asked the audience whether they used UML 2.0 and only a couple of people raised their... more »
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If a programming language was a boat…
This one is inspired by a recent forum post, that still leaves me in amazement. Hi, Im wondering how i can create a boat in turing and if... more »
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glTrail - realtime website usage visualization
View real-time relations and activities from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an entertaining way.
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Creating a great workplace for developers
I was recently trawling through my Google Reader subscriptions and came across a post about workplace experiments, which struck a chord with some of... more »
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There’s only one workaholic here, me!
On March 7th, Jason Calacanis posted, How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips). It has since been updated. Within 24 hours, Robert... more »
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.Net developers, and why we're crap
Why are .Net developers usually technically inferior to Java developers.
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Interviewing the Employer
I often read blogs that have tips for interviewing candidates. I’m always looking for questions that may give me some real deep insight as to what the... more »
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Apache vs Nginx : Web Server Performance Deathmatch
good benchmark about nginx vs apache
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Write more empty lines! They will be read!
Using empty lines in source code may seem like a waste of precious screen space, but it's crucial to writing readable code.
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Authentication without sessions in PHP
The normal way to save a state, like the fact that a user is logged in, is to use sessions. Session work really nice, you can save all kind of data on... more »
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Easy PDF Generation in PHP
PDF is a popular, versatile format for storing content. PDF files can be generated once, and distributed in peace knowing that they will look the same... more »
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Creating An Agile Culture
The mission of this article is to get rid of the illusion that your Software Development Process determines if your company is ‘agile’ or not. It’s... more »
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TDD leads to an architectural meltdown around iteration three
TDD causes architectural meltdown!
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PHP and MVC
Been reading this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller and it seems the techniques that I employ are somewhat similar, well,... more »
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What if programmer quits the company? Handle the problem
As I have promised in the previous post, I would like to share some tips on how you can fight the problem of high attrition rates. Basic idea is... more »
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VirtualBox - Install of OpenSolaris,NetBeans & Java SE 6 on a Mac (Images)
I have been using Parallels in conjunction with Nevada Version 82 (OpenSolaris). Yesterday I decided to explore Sun/Innotek's VirtualBox and Nevada... more »
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Linux is killing Solaris
From the "duh obvious" department... Linux is killing Solaris. After recently having deployed my project to both OSes, I can't wait to get back to an... more »
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