Collaboration: At the Extremities of Extreme
Jason Ayers share the observations he made watching a team of developers collaborating in real time on the same code base, pushing XP,... more »
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Broad NoSQL Adoption in 2012?
The SQL / NoSQL debate continues with Couchbase releasing the results of an industry-wide survey tracking the potential development of... more »
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LinkedIn ads - puzzling results
LinkedIn appears to be an ideal platform for vendors to promote their products on but does it work? Our test was puzzling at best...
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Trends in NoSQL Interest According to Google Analytics
A quick look at the change in popularity of various NoSQL / SQL databases, including MongoDB. A few searches in Google Analytics provide... more »
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Why don't more game developers see royalties from their work?
When people talk about the importance of actually spending money on games, rather than resorting to a used purchase or piracy, the... more »
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Give Your Windows Phone App the Finger!
Jerry Nixon provides a great link to an article written by colleague Sam Stokes, and also offers his own take on the task of dragging... more »
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Resiliency is a Key Cloud Characteristic
This article reflects on a recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) drafted definition of Cloud Computing. NIST lists... more »
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Work or Whine. A Rant.
When Nicole S. Young’s ebook on MicroStock came out last year on the Craft&Vision site, we caught some flack for “supporting the... more »
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A few words on bugs and software quality
From time to time I see bugs in the code and I start thinking "really? is it possible that no one noticed that bug before? am i the first... more »
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Send me a patch for that
Numerous times I’ve seen reactions from OSS developers, contributors or merely a simple passer by, responding to a complaint with: submit... more »
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Unsung Heroes of Linux: Part One
Everyone knows and loves Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth, the creator of Ubuntu Linux, is pretty famous. Richard... more »
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Cookie law: Analytics are illegal, but we won't prosecute you. Probably
The new EU cookie law is confusing. The latest guidance released by the ICO about the new EU cookie law was released in December and it... more »
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PHP: land of a thousand frameworks
Ask me which framework to use and I'll probably have a grumpy old woman moment and tell you that all frameworks are as bad as one... more »
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No framework needed
It goes without saying that we use Rails a lot here at 37signals. Often times, when we look at a problem, we turn to Rails or something... more »
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Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time
If you can stomach the smell, put yourself briefly in the shoes of a programming language designer. What you want to do is create new... more »
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Carriers hate the iPhone
Apple’s iPhone is the most profitable product offered by the most valuable company in the world. With only three iPhone models in its... more »
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The Curious Story of the Smart Microsoft Developer Who Couldn’t Find a Job (he liked)
This is the story of Pete, our fictional character. Pete is a principal developer at Microsoft. He kicks ass solving problems and... more »
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Linux Command Line tips that every Linux user should know.
Below is the collection of Linux command line tips which I’ve found useful for Linux users. To get more information about the command... more »
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Farewell Stack Exchange
It's been almost exactly 4 years since I chose my own adventure. In those four years, we accomplished incredible things together. Stack... more »
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