Date and Time API changes in Java 8
A big part of developer community has been complaining about Date and Calender classes. Reasons were many such as hard to understand,... more »
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Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
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Google's next act: Diversify and conquer
Center stage at this year's Google I/O was a company honing its vision for a future beyond search
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Stumbling Into the Cold Expanse of Real Programming
This is going to look like I'm wallowing in nostalgia, but that's not my intent. Or maybe it is. I started writing this without a final... more »
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5 Trends That Will Drive The Future of Technology
Trends get a bad rap, mostly because they are often equated with fashions. Talk about trends and people immediately start imagining... more »
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Mastering the Requirements Process
In an era where managing requirements could seem to be limited to writing user stories with a “as a … I want … so that” format on a... 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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Pretenders and Contenders in the Hybrid Cloud
CloudVelocity blog about vendors pretending to offer hybrid cloud solutions that do not address the critical authentication services that... more »
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Freedom, responsibility, and testing: Lessons for DevOps
Testing has a body of theory that helps its manageability and scalability. Many of the principles deserve to be borrowed into DevOps
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Expect for DevOps
Sysads and programmers have widely used Expect for twenty years. Most of them misunderstand its essence and role, though: like WD-40 or... more »
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What’s really different about “Enterprise”
Even though big web sites use lots of so-called “enterprise” technology, and big companies and government departments create... more »
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Recruit this
IT recruiters are often considered a pain. This post points out a few areas where IT recruitment could improve.
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On GC in Games
To summarize: no mainstream language does this “right”. What you want is a language that’s memory safe, but without relegating every... more »
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Pair Programming Benefits: Part 2 - The Rest
When last we spoke, I discussed some of the pleasant discoveries that I had in my initial pair programming outings. In this post,... more »
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Remember: Your Git Commit Email is Public
Here’s a fact I don’t think a lot of people know. Or rather they do know, but haven’t thought about:
Are your tender requirements killing your IT project?
Plenty of organizations have well-formed procedures for procurement on large projects, but when the projects are small, the contracts are... more »
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Do Developers Need Free Perks to Thrive?
Cutting back on perks may seem like a smart business move—until developers start leaving the company.
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Is Fragmentation Of Standards Opening Us Up For Further Exploits?
Can the lack of standardization be part of the cause of so many vulnerabilities we see in tech? When two rules don't exactly fit... more »
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Not better, but different
he most important feature of Apple products is usability--Simple, aesthetic, easy to use. Their products may not necessarily the most... more »
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ABC: Always Be Coding
Be honest. Are you a good engineering candidate? How are you measuring yourself? How many companies have you interviewed at? What is your... more »
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The divided IT-business team can only lose
When the business units and IT aren't playing as a real team, everyone loses except those selling them tech
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The job is 'IT manager,' but in title only
A newly hired IT pro has one best option after discovering the boss doesn't trust or give responsibility: Get out
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