Cloud Computing: Good or Bad for Open Source?
Cloud computing: you may have heard of it. It seems to be everywhere these days, and if you believe the hype, there's a near-unanimous consensus that... more »
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Knowing when to persevere and when to change approach
It strikes me that one of the most important skills to develop in software development is knowing when to keep going with an approach to a problem and... more »
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With Blame Goes Guilt
I was talking to a colleague last night about my thoughts around A Culture of Blame. He was sharing with me one of the tactics used by management, and... more »
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The Craftsman Analogy | Jayway Team Blog - Sharing Experience
The analogy of software developers as craftsmen has become very popular. I don't know where it started, but the first book I read about it was the... more »
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Questions on controllers testing
A reader has written to me asking some basic questions about my last post on dropping unit testing for controllers. I am glad to write a less... more »
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3 Reasons Why I Wouldn't Do Agile Project Management
Agile project management doesn't suit every situation...
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Take what you can get (?)
When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get. You... more »
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Oredev 2009 - LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video
I was at Øredev 2009 in Malmö, Sweden this week. Øredev is fast becoming one of the premier conferences in Europe focused on the software development... more »
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Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and Software Security Today
The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team recently released two new security tools, BinScope Binary Analyzer and MiniFuzz File Fuzzer,... more »
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Colorful Explosion in ActionScript 3
I am a huge fan of circles, and I am an even bigger fan of making things move. In this tutorial, I will combine them both into one example that I call... more »
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Trigonometric Animations
This title may sound scary to you, and it probably isn't because of the word Animations. The word trigonometric to many of you brings up memories of... more »
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TDD: Useful when new on a project
Something which I've noticed over the last few projects that I've worked on is that at the beginning when I don't know very much at all about the code... more »
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It takes real balls to do it right
It does not take a genius to realize that I (and most others on this blog) are fans of JetBrains. But what it may take a genius to realize is it... more »
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
“Programmers are craftspeople trained to use a certain set of tools (editors, object managers, version trackers) to generate a certain kind of product... more »
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How much Architecture do you need?
Thoughts on the amount of Architecture artefacts you might need to create
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