A good choice of font for your coding activites can make a huge difference and improve your productivity, so take a look at the fonts in this post if you never considered changing programming fonts before.

Many well-publicized big-data stories are like Barbie dolls. They’re great sources of inspiration, but you can’t realistically model your own path to success on that example.

Waterfall model follows application development in phases with checkpoint and deliverable documents in each checkpoint. It advocates rigours project management, strategy and processes to track the status. The main drawback is that it require more than 80% project understanding before kick off the project which is impossible in major cases. Cause of volatile requirements and understanding business feels, 80% of software projects using this methodology fail to meet their objectives.

A few thoughts on ACID, transactions, CAP, and BASE. The impact of NoSQL and the requirements of ACID and transactions, the emergence of BASE as a result of moving to distributed systems.

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.

I’ve been a professional programmer now for over a decade, and during this time I’ve met a LOT of excellent programmers. Most of them are partially autodidactic and learned the business side of programming in school. But non of these guru’s/experts use their skills to teach the next generations.

Testing has a body of theory that helps its manageability and scalability. Many of the principles deserve to be borrowed into DevOps

It’s easy to be critical of managers. A few things to remember. Point 0 - Most people in management roles want to do a good job, but may not know what to do or how to do it...

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.

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.

A newer version of the postgresql-async project has been released and now it also includes MySQL support with the mysql-async project. You can do non-blocking communication to MySQL and PostgreSQL using Scala in a simple and easy way.

Service virtualization undeniably benefits the development process, but it can be both a blessing & a curse for developers. Learn how to minimize the burden on development to achieve maximum acceleration of delivery cycles.

Yahoo’s board has approved a billion-dollar-plus layout to buy Tumblr.

I’ve been asking around on email and on the social networks what makes a conference memorable, special, or amazing. This topic has my special interest, not only because I attend between 20-25 conferences per year, but also because I’m trying to help make the DARE 2013 a great experience.