7 secrets every developer should know before getting into a manager or lead role
At some point of time in your career, you have to decide if you want to continue on a technical path or to take up a management role.... more »
Free flat UI kits for a resourceful designer
Ever since Microsoft unveiled their Metro UI – the tiled interface that, interestingly, wasn’t a big hit with many users – there’s been a... more »
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Everything I Know About Project Management, I Learned from Game of Thrones
In George R.R. Martin’s masterful series, A Song of Ice and Fire (currently an HBO television show, Game of Thrones), many characters in... more »
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JavaScript Frameworks and Resources
JavaScript Frameworks and Resources
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Dump JSP tag libs and switch to JSON
I often see development teams using JSP tag libraries when they shouldn't be. I wrote this post to explain why it's best to view JSP tag... more »
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Setting up VisualVM in under 5 minutes
Ever used VisualVM? This quick guide will quickly get you working with VisualVM in Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA.
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Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
We put Mozilla's JavaScript subset—asm.js—to the test and it worked really, Really well.
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100% Big Data, 0% Hadoop, 0% Java
Pavlo Baron presented this 45-minute lecture on Big Data minus Java/Hadoop at NoSQL Matters.
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JIRA 6.0 - confident movement to nowhere?
Atlassian spent almost a year on improving JIRA project management tool. What has been done and what was expected for 6.0 version?
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7 Agile Best Practices that You Don’t Need to Follow
Some commonly accepted ideas and best practices aren’t important: if you don’t follow them, nothing bad will happen to you and your... more »
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Useful Eclipse Plugins that didn't made it to the Top 10 list
List of Useful Eclipse Plugins that didn't made it to the Top 10 list
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Concurrent introduce Hadoop machine learning tool Pattern
Following March’s $4m investment, Cascading company Concurrent have made their latest Big Data move, pushing a new free Hadoop workflow... more »
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Daniel Cook on 8 Laws of Productivity
Daniel Cook has a great PDF on the 8 Laws of Productivity. The subtitle is “8 Productivity Experiments You Don’t Need to Repeat.”... more »
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Plans for supporting Web Components in AngularJS and Ember.js
Web Components [1] are an upcoming standard for custom HTML5 user interface elements. Those UI elements will eventually become... more »
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How to configure jscharts for web application
This article explains how to configure jschart for your web applications on tomcat server
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How to crack a Telephonic Interview?
This is an important step for both the interviewer and the interviewee. Just as a personal interview, there are some basic dos and... more »
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Performance matters when writing, too: more SQL tips
Programmers generally recognize that SQL can be optimized: experts often rewrite queries to take only a fraction of the time of their... more »
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It’s Not Just Women We Need; It’s a Variety of People
I have tried to contribute to the agile community, chairing the Agile 2009 conference, speaking at user groups, writing for a number of... more »
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Tracing Black Boxes I: JMX Insight Into JVM Performance
JMX stands for Java Management Extensions, and while Wikipedia’s page about JMX is a bit sparse, this IBM developerWorks guide provides a... more »
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Things to Consider When Featuring Branching with Continuous Integration
So you’re using Continuous Integration and Mercurial as your VCS. CI is great, you’re loving the feedback and feeling good after a green... more »
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An Introduction to the Hortonworks Sandbox
Hortonworks recently unveiled the Hortonworks Sandbox, a free, comprehensive, easy-to-use, hands-on learning environment that provides... more »
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ADP4J : Annotation Driven Properties For Java
ADP4J allows you to inject configuration properties in your objects easily using annotations.
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10 Powerful Responsive Lightboxes
Lightbox has always been one of the great method to display images without having to refresh a page. Nowadays, with the booming of... more »
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JBoss BRMS Rewards Demo Updated with EAP 6.1.0
Demo updated with newest JBoss EAP version.
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XML Serialization and Deserialization: Part-1
The article talks about serialization of objects in XML format and deserialization of an XML file back to an object. Serialization is a... more »
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