The Technology Cliff: How Time Off From Programming Affects Your Chops
I received an email the other day asking how long it took to get my coding chops back when I moved from management back to development.
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Party Of One: Maintain
The previous entry on one-man open source projects has talked about the development facet. Today, i’m going to talk about perhaps the most... more »
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Why should I care about OSGi anyway?
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via blog.springsource.com
InfoQ has a discussion thread summarizing the reactions to the announcement of the SpringSource Application Plaform. Michael Burke asked a great... more »
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Platform to Platform
Recently, I've been working with a client as part of a major platform change they're making. It's the third time I've been involved with a big... more »
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Computer Programming: Art, Science, or Both?
If the question is "Is programming an art or science?", then the follow up question is "Are programmers artists or scientists?" Off the top of my... more »
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Measuring Progress
Fundamentally, there is no more valid measure for progress, than the working software itself. This only leaves open to discussion, the definition of... more »
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The Costs of Under Pricing Your Design Services
Many web designers fall into a trap by pricing their services lower than they should, which can have a serious impact on their business. Here is a... more »
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Building a Mindset for Rapid Iteration Part 2: Some Patterns to Follow and Pitfalls to Avoid
bloid via gamasutra.com
Looks at methodologies that can be employed to keep a game development project moving towards completion, but a lot of the stuff can be applied to any... more »
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Type inference thoughts
bloid via larswestergren.blogspot.com
I have been wondering about one thing and throw out this question just in case someone possibly reads my blog - does type inference bring any benefits... more »
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Sample Sprint Planning Procedure
A concrete, down to Earth example on how a particular scrum team does its sprint planning.
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Book Review: Agile Project Management with Scrum
For many agile practitioners, particularly the ScrumMasters among us, books by Ken Schwaber are a must-read. I can explain, using a wide range of both... more »
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Discussing free software syncronicity
There’s been a flurry of discussion around the idea of syncronicity in free software projects. I’d like to write up a more comprehensive view, but I’m... more »
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Save time with Pulse 2.1
Pulse has been of a great help for me personally to manage versions, plugins and to share profiles. It is a great sign of relief to many developers... more »
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Code For Decoding Codes – A Programming Project Discussion
I love to collect fun coding projects. I like short, easy to understand projects that get students to use a number of things (language constructs,... more »
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Top Time-wasters for Web Workers (And How to Cure Them)
As web workers, our unproductive time doesn’t go to water cooler gossip or hanging out at the employee lounge. Usually, we’ll lose hours each day on... more »
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Is Formal Project Management Necessary?
Is formal project management necessary to successfully deliver a software project? The short answer to that is no. Many successful software products... more »
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Future of Windows Forms and ASP.NET
This blog sheds some lights on what future holds for Windows Forms and ASP.NET when WPF is already here.
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Would Type Inference help Java
bloid via ola-bini.blogspot.com
My former colleague Lars Westergren recently posted a blog (here) about type inferencing, posing the question whether type inference would actually be... more »
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A New Hope: Polyglotism
bloid via ola-bini.blogspot.com
OK, so this isn't necessarily anything new, but I had to go with the running joke of the two blog posts this post is more or less a follow up to. If... more »
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JavaScript: Split the Initial Payload
The growing adoption of Ajax and DHTML means today’s web pages have more JavaScript than ever before. The average top ten U.S. web site[1] contains... more »
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Virus Scanning from Code
"A middle-manager who learned about viruses from his son’s copy of Wired magazine realizes you’re saving user-uploaded files to your web server, and... more »
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Is Business Process Modeling a Hypocrisy?
I am forever dumbfounded when I stumble upon development organizations that lack a VCS and Issue Tracker. It is the height of hypocrisy to sell to... more »
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What To Know Before Debating Type Systems
I would be willing to place a bet that most computer programmers have, on multiple occasions, expressed an opinion about the desirability of certain... more »
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Thoughts on Collective Code Ownership
Agile software development methodologies like Extreme Programming (XP) propagate collective code ownership: Every developer is allowed (and... more »
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How to beat comment spam (for now, anyway)
Thoughts on defeating comment spam without user visible captcha's by using javascript.
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