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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:27:53 GMT The DZone community 2008-07-24T20:27:53Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/queue/opinion/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/5_rules_of_variable_naming.html 5 rules you should always follow when coming up with variable names. how-to opinion Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:19:13 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97865.html djianh 2008-07-24T20:19:13Z 5 rules you should always follow when coming up with variable names.]]> 97865 2008-07-24T20:19:13Z 1 0 2 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97865.jpg djianh http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193683.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/the_open_web_foundation_is_open_for_business.html David Recordon, the open platforms tech lead for blogging company Six Apart, was on hand at OSCON this morning to deliver a keynote about ways to support the "Open Web," a term that denotes a group of Web specifications developed within the open source community. Since many projects need help understanding the legalities behind adopting these specifications, Recordon took the opportunity to announce the newly formed Open Web Foundation (OWF), "an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies." news open source opinion standards Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:57:56 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97856.html normchow 2008-07-24T18:57:56Z David Recordon, the open platforms tech lead for blogging company Six Apart, was on hand at OSCON this morning to deliver a keynote about ways to support the "Open Web," a term that denotes a group of Web specifications developed within the open source community. Since many projects need help understanding the legalities behind adopting these specifications, Recordon took the opportunity to announce the newly formed Open Web Foundation (OWF), "an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies."]]> 97856 2008-07-24T18:57:56Z 1 0 2 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97856.jpg normchow http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/306169.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/veteran_developer_ditches_microsoft_for_open_sour.html If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open source -- and he's not going back. opinion reviews Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:47:33 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97824.html mswatcher 2008-07-24T17:47:33Z If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open source -- and he's not going back.]]> 97824 2008-07-24T17:47:33Z 2 0 12 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97824.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/are_corporate_program_managers_too_riskaverse.html I've been pondering this series of polls I've been running and wrote the following paragraph: Standing in opposition for this need for high productivity is risk: risk of major delay, risk of a show-stopping technical incompatibility, risk of embracing a tool or technique that is reaching the end of its evolution. These types of risks can have huge costs, and it’s very reasonable for project managers to decide to be conservative, especially when it comes to critical infrastructure components. opinion reviews Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:37:46 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97821.html mswatcher 2008-07-24T17:37:46Z I've been pondering this series of polls I've been running and wrote the following paragraph: Standing in opposition for this need for high productivity is risk: risk of major delay, risk of a show-stopping technical incompatibility, risk of embracing a tool or technique that is reaching the end of its evolution. These types of risks can have huge costs, and it’s very reasonable for project managers to decide to be conservative, especially when it comes to critical infrastructure components.]]> 97821 2008-07-24T17:37:46Z 1 0 4 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97821.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/repairing_a_damaged_web_working_career.html Like a corporate career, web work can also be prone to seemingly irreparable damages. Whether it’s personal problems that affect the quality of your work, difficult clients who give you bad publicity, or the lack of strong business sense, you might get hurled down from your planned career ladder. opinion reviews Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:36:13 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97820.html mswatcher 2008-07-24T17:36:13Z Like a corporate career, web work can also be prone to seemingly irreparable damages. Whether it’s personal problems that affect the quality of your work, difficult clients who give you bad publicity, or the lack of strong business sense, you might get hurled down from your planned career ladder.]]> 97820 2008-07-24T17:36:13Z 1 0 2 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97820.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/the_freelancing_business_part_2_budgeting_your_pr.html Welcome to the second in the series of dev.opera.com articles covering making money as a developer. In the last article, we discussed issues related to pricing—how to price your work, and how to maneuver your career into higher rates. Now that you know how to price your work, you need to manage that money. So in this article, I’ll address budgeting. opinion Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:56:59 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97808.html bloid 2008-07-24T15:56:59Z Welcome to the second in the series of dev.opera.com articles covering making money as a developer. In the last article, we discussed issues related to pricing—how to price your work, and how to maneuver your career into higher rates. Now that you know how to price your work, you need to manage that money. So in this article, I’ll address budgeting.]]> 97808 2008-07-24T15:56:59Z 2 0 5 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97808.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/a_frank_discussion_about_ria_with_forrester.html Richard Monson-Haefel, VP of Developer Relations for Curl Inc. recently interviewed Ron Rogowski of Forrester Research about the state of RIA technology in a five episode podcast available on Curl's website. database opinion ria trends Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:46:46 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97801.html CurlCrazy 2008-07-24T15:46:46Z Richard Monson-Haefel, VP of Developer Relations for Curl Inc. recently interviewed Ron Rogowski of Forrester Research about the state of RIA technology in a five episode podcast available on Curl's website.]]> 97801 2008-07-24T15:46:46Z 2 0 5 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97801.jpg CurlCrazy http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/301899.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/podcast_15_stackoverflow.html This is the fifteenth episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and Jeff discuss... opinion tools trends Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:46:48 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97773.html AlvinAshcraft 2008-07-24T13:46:48Z This is the fifteenth episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and Jeff discuss...]]> 97773 2008-07-24T13:46:48Z 2 0 4 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97773.jpg alashcraft http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/285573.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/some_points_about_services_layer.html Some time ago I introduced here book titled as "Domain Driven Design". One concept this book described was Services Layer. Okay, there were some other layers too but I want to stop at services layer this time :) methodology opinion trends Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:38:23 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97769.html AlvinAshcraft 2008-07-24T13:38:23Z Some time ago I introduced here book titled as "Domain Driven Design". One concept this book described was Services Layer. Okay, there were some other layers too but I want to stop at services layer this time :)]]> 97769 2008-07-24T13:38:23Z 2 0 6 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97769.jpg alashcraft http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/285573.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/iphone_apps_why_we_still_need_the_iphone_app_blac.html we need more than Apple's official app store—we still need jailbreaking, Installer.app (now Cydia) and the best unauthorized third-party apps to make the iPhone an ultra-powerful open platform we really want. apple mobile opinion Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:50:15 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97756.html rick 2008-07-24T12:50:15Z we need more than Apple's official app store—we still need jailbreaking, Installer.app (now Cydia) and the best unauthorized third-party apps to make the iPhone an ultra-powerful open platform we really want.]]> 97756 2008-07-24T12:50:15Z 3 0 5 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97756.jpg rick http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/1.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/dependency_management_why_its_so_difficult_.html Anybody could explain me why do you use maven. As I understand the main purpose of maven is a support of dependencies between modules/components in project. Other task such as reporting, documentation and others is not important. In this case it would be much more useful/simple to use less complicated tool. opinion tools Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:04:23 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97749.html tvv2000 2008-07-24T12:04:23Z Anybody could explain me why do you use maven. As I understand the main purpose of maven is a support of dependencies between modules/components in project. Other task such as reporting, documentation and others is not important. In this case it would be much more useful/simple to use less complicated tool.]]> 97749 2008-07-24T12:04:23Z 3 0 21 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97749.jpg tvv2000 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/233590.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/modal_overlays_beyond_the_dialog_box_37signals.html Short article from 37signals that talks about using model dialog boxes as part of a web design. They make the point that not all model dialogs are bad and can even be used in different situations to actually improve visual interest and depth and simply navigation. opinion web design Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:13:36 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97741.html rlamarch 2008-07-24T11:13:36Z Short article from 37signals that talks about using model dialog boxes as part of a web design. They make the point that not all model dialogs are bad and can even be used in different situations to actually improve visual interest and depth and simply navigation.]]> 97741 2008-07-24T11:13:36Z 3 0 8 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97741.jpg rlamarch http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/209500.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/yahoo_launches_ymail_and_rocketmail_today.html Yahoo will launch two new email address domains: ymail.com and rocketmail.com to its webmail service. This is due to the increasing difficulty that web users face in trying to find simple and straightforward usernames while registering for an email service ‘@yahoo.com’. opinion reviews trends Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:50:10 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97700.html aarongulecha 2008-07-24T07:50:10Z Yahoo will launch two new email address domains: ymail.com and rocketmail.com to its webmail service. This is due to the increasing difficulty that web users face in trying to find simple and straightforward usernames while registering for an email service ‘@yahoo.com’.]]> 97700 2008-07-24T07:50:10Z 1 0 17 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97700.jpg aarongulecha http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/318919.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/fabio_akita_talks_on_locaweb_and_rubylearning.html Fabio Akita talks on Locaweb and RubyLearning to Satish Talim in this interview. open source opinion ruby Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:03:11 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97689.html IndianGuru 2008-07-24T07:03:11Z Fabio Akita talks on Locaweb and RubyLearning to Satish Talim in this interview.]]> 97689 2008-07-24T07:03:11Z 4 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97689.jpg IndianGuru http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/206941.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/10_tips_for_being_a_greener_web_designer.html As web designers, it’s impossible to deny that electricity lies behind everything we do. There is no physical alternative—no part of our job—that is entirely free from energy consumption. opinion Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:28:37 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97669.html bloid 2008-07-24T06:28:37Z As web designers, it’s impossible to deny that electricity lies behind everything we do. There is no physical alternative—no part of our job—that is entirely free from energy consumption.]]> 97669 2008-07-24T06:28:37Z 4 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97669.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/14_reasons_not_to_upgrade_your_drupal_website.html After all the time that has been spent on creating a "easy installer" Drupal is still one of the hardest CMS to install. Why? Upgrading! Upgrading Drupal to any version is a nightmare! opinion php server Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:25:01 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97633.html Steelrat 2008-07-24T03:25:01Z After all the time that has been spent on creating a "easy installer" Drupal is still one of the hardest CMS to install. Why? Upgrading! Upgrading Drupal to any version is a nightmare!]]> 97633 2008-07-24T03:25:01Z 2 0 8 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97633.jpg Steelrat http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/209639.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/so_you_want_to_be_a_programmer.html Walter Bright asks what college course a programmer really needs. And gets a lot of answers. Including Rosfran Borges's advice to study poetry, including Blake and Baudelaire. I'm trying to picture Blakean code -- actually, I may have written some. how-to opinion other languages Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:49:52 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97607.html LBR9 2008-07-23T23:49:52Z Walter Bright asks what college course a programmer really needs. And gets a lot of answers. Including Rosfran Borges's advice to study poetry, including Blake and Baudelaire. I'm trying to picture Blakean code -- actually, I may have written some.]]> 97607 2008-07-23T23:49:52Z 2 0 22 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97607.jpg LBR9 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283052.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/another_reason_to_launch_your_startup_now_inflati.html With inflation quickly getting out of control, now may be the time to launch that tech startup you have the money stashed aside for. news opinion trends Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:36:20 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97590.html cbalaves 2008-07-23T22:36:20Z With inflation quickly getting out of control, now may be the time to launch that tech startup you have the money stashed aside for.]]> 97590 2008-07-23T22:36:20Z 3 0 55 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97590.jpg cbalaves http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/221531.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/keeping_your_functions_clean_pt_1.html One of my coworkers, who is still somewhat fresh out of college, asked me why I had broken up one of my functions into a few smaller ones, when there was only one caller for each of them. One of the funnier things he suggested was that inlining the code would save an x86 push instruction. But then he surprised me, by suggesting that unnecessarily breaking up functions can make code more difficult to read. opinion Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:14:17 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97569.html bloid 2008-07-23T21:14:17Z One of my coworkers, who is still somewhat fresh out of college, asked me why I had broken up one of my functions into a few smaller ones, when there was only one caller for each of them. One of the funnier things he suggested was that inlining the code would save an x86 push instruction. But then he surprised me, by suggesting that unnecessarily breaking up functions can make code more difficult to read.]]> 97569 2008-07-23T21:14:17Z 2 0 20 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97569.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/certified_schizophrenic.html The other night I was having dinner with a bunch of folks, and I think it was Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django dude and Postgres user) who noted that the Postgres community's governance model was this crazy mix of distributed peer-to-peer style chaos, that on it's surface wouldn't seem functional, but somehow seems to work really well for our project (my paraphrazation). It's hard to argue. We don't have a one true leader, and we don't have a corporate master. database opinion Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:52:28 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97557.html bloid 2008-07-23T20:52:28Z The other night I was having dinner with a bunch of folks, and I think it was Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django dude and Postgres user) who noted that the Postgres community's governance model was this crazy mix of distributed peer-to-peer style chaos, that on it's surface wouldn't seem functional, but somehow seems to work really well for our project (my paraphrazation). It's hard to argue. We don't have a one true leader, and we don't have a corporate master.]]> 97557 2008-07-23T20:52:28Z 1 0 7 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97557.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/chosing_the_right_license_in_the_open_source_world.html So you are now ready to start creating a product. This product will contain software. Software you will write, or have already written, but possibly also third party software that you will bundle with your own code, and maybe some hardware. open source opinion Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:05:53 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97525.html bloid 2008-07-23T18:05:53Z So you are now ready to start creating a product. This product will contain software. Software you will write, or have already written, but possibly also third party software that you will bundle with your own code, and maybe some hardware.]]> 97525 2008-07-23T18:05:53Z 2 0 11 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97525.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/what_is_really_considered_documentation.html As a committed user of open source technologies, the difference between me using something and not using something is the documentation. Is there documentation for it? Is it easy to find? Does it answer my questions? Is there someone I can call an idiot if I disagree with the level of documentation? These are all very important questions. opinion php Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:37:10 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97501.html bloid 2008-07-23T16:37:10Z As a committed user of open source technologies, the difference between me using something and not using something is the documentation. Is there documentation for it? Is it easy to find? Does it answer my questions? Is there someone I can call an idiot if I disagree with the level of documentation? These are all very important questions.]]> 97501 2008-07-23T16:37:10Z 2 0 17 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97501.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/enterprisedbs_survey_results_interesting_but_i_ha.html Today at the OSCON conference in Oregon, open source database company EnterpriseDB announced the results of its 2008 Open Source Database Survey. It collected the opinions of 500 corporate IT leaders on enterprise adoption of open source databases. There is an executive summary of the findings available as a free PDF download. EnterpriseDB focuses as a company on PostgreSQL, so it is calling out many of the findings from the survey related to that product, but there are other points of interest. In a few cases, I had to question the results. database open source opinion trends Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:11:23 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97369.html normchow 2008-07-23T09:11:23Z Today at the OSCON conference in Oregon, open source database company EnterpriseDB announced the results of its 2008 Open Source Database Survey. It collected the opinions of 500 corporate IT leaders on enterprise adoption of open source databases. There is an executive summary of the findings available as a free PDF download. EnterpriseDB focuses as a company on PostgreSQL, so it is calling out many of the findings from the survey related to that product, but there are other points of interest. In a few cases, I had to question the results.]]> 97369 2008-07-23T09:11:23Z 2 0 15 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97369.jpg normchow http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/306169.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/software_development_one_step_forward_two_steps_b.html At the office, we, the Web Services team form a team of four people who handle the core data storage and communications centre for the companies main application. It’s by no means the most complex (it’s extremely simple in fact) or even the most important, but none the less, it forms the glue between each of the client applications and hosts the file/data store for all shared information used throughout the system. opinion reviews Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:50:41 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97321.html mswatcher 2008-07-23T05:50:41Z At the office, we, the Web Services team form a team of four people who handle the core data storage and communications centre for the companies main application. It’s by no means the most complex (it’s extremely simple in fact) or even the most important, but none the less, it forms the glue between each of the client applications and hosts the file/data store for all shared information used throughout the system.]]> 97321 2008-07-23T05:50:41Z 3 0 14 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97321.jpg mswatcher http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/another_terrible_idea_from_godaddy_systemwide_spa.html As if there weren't enough reasons not to use GoDaddy here is another problem with using them. The system wide domain name email blacklist opinion security server Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:47:13 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/97306.html wastedbrains 2008-07-23T04:47:13Z As if there weren't enough reasons not to use GoDaddy here is another problem with using them. The system wide domain name email blacklist]]> 97306 2008-07-23T04:47:13Z 3 0 14 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/97306.jpg wastedbrains http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/257570.gif