Trends get a bad rap, mostly because they are often equated with fashions.  Talk about trends and people immediately start imagining wafer thin models strutting down catwalks in outrageous outfits or a new shade of purple that will be long forgotten by next season.

Abstraction and Encapsulation are two important Object Oriented Programming (OOPS) concepts. Encapsulation and Abstraction both are interrelated terms.

Google I/O 2013 has ended and while we saw a few new things on the Android front, this year's event was much more dialed back than 2012 as far as the platform is concerned. There was no Android update announced, much to the chagrin of some bloggers. In my opinion, this isn't that big of a deal as the platform is in a very stable, viable place right now. The platform along with the Android Design Guidelines provide the foundation for developers to deliver almost everything possible in their apps.

Atlassian shut down JavaBlogs the original go-to blog aggregator for Java.

Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of developers. Overall, I have found them to be intelligent, witty, focused, incredibly funny… and also pretty isolated.

This is the second part of the article in which I’m sharing a list of simple tips that, in my opinion, can help programmers succeed at their current workplace.

During Google I/O 2013 event a Google manager said PHP runs on 75% of the Web sites. So they decided to finally support PHP as in their AppEngine hosting service. Read this article to understand why this puts an end to years of false claims that PHP was losing market, as well what it means to Web developers using PHP or other languages.

In an era where managing requirements could seem to be limited to writing user stories with a “as a … I want … so that” format on a post-it, it could be strange to publish a 500 pages book on this topic. However, people that want to go a little bit further on the requirements topic will find a very valuable resource in this book by Suzanne and James Robertson that explore in details the relationship between the IT and business part of software development projects.

Have you ever hesitated which session to attend on a multi-track conference? Here is a short guide that should help you quickly figure out what to expect on a presentation, just judging from the title ;-)

At every software development conference, the rooms are filled with speakers wanting to teach you the newest framework or the hottest programming language. And it’s always revolutionary, it’ll always make you 10X more productive, and it’s always a blast to work with. So people learn their frameworks and their languages, but they never take the time to learn basic skills like unit testing, refactoring, object-oriented design or patterns.

Overview of Google I/O from the Android perspective

Hibernate has become core persistence framework, much like Spring MVC in presentation layer. This article contains a list of Hibernate interview questions mostly asked to Java J2EE programmers in various interviews.

This week we're talking to Mahdi Yusuf, developer at Source Metrics, active member of the Python community, and creator of Neckbeard Republic.

Both Ruby and PHP have been around since 1995, but the “newcomer” Python is actually older, first appearing in 1991. Since their introduction, the three development languages have taken very different journeys to the present, now finally coming to the scene as co-equals. Much of the argument over language is centered on PHP vs. Ruby and how these two stack up against one another. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but now with the re-emergence of Python as a popular choice (thanks mainly to Google), the head-to-head battle has become a trifecta.

Learn about the Postgres features and why you should consider it for your next project. These include: Datatypes Using other languages within Postgres Extensions including NoSQL inside your SQL database Accessing your non-Postgres data (Redis, Oracle, MySQL) from within Postgres Window Functions.

First what was kind of shocking for me was the fact to deal with ShrinkWrap at the end. Ok you can go with Arquillian without ShrinkWrap but it is not natural at all for me.

Let Radical Rich show you how in this demonstration video from 855 ft up in the air!

Jokes about “stupid developers” are still lurking in the corners, stories of “throwing things over the wall to development” continue to repeat themselves, and making fun of developer geekiness still prevails. Admittedly, I enjoyed these jokes as much as everyone else, but they always give me a bitter aftertaste; why is this barrier between testers and developers so hard to overcome?

If you take anything away from this cautionary tale it is to constantly be on the look out for those that adhere to the status quo. It takes a certain combination of this quality with an opportunistic personality to cause this sort of organization-wide damage but it does happen.

This chapter analyzes the “need experience to get experience” dilemma that those who are new to the I.T. field often encounter. More important, however, this chapter discusses methods you can use to break past this barrier.

New project aims to increase security, standardise data formats and messaging protocols.

As CBS showed, Intel is already selling software to recognize the rough demographic of an individual in order to deliver more a targeted advertisement, and as the report stated, “Big Brother is no longer Big Government. Big Brother is Big Business,” but without the rules that restrict government.

When creating something of value, the first people we care about are those who will get value from the product we create. I call these Consumers. These are the users and those who are affected by the work of the users.

I’ve been meaning to write an article about a few of the communities in the open source world. However, I believe that the article “7 Open Source Projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid)” by Rikki of ITWorld has said what I wanted to. Some of the open source projects that I’ve had good/bad experiences contributing to have been:

“The team is everything”, “The team owns its own planning” . yea right! As if my project manager and his PMO and marketing managers cares.. . Please join my first post about preplanning that tries to describe how my team tries to balance between the corporate demands for control and planning and the team autonomy as it should be in agile development .