Creating Shazam in Java
This got me interested in how a program like Shazam works… And more importantly, how hard is it to program something similar in Java?
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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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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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Teaching programming, we have a huge problem
I’ve been a professional programmer now for over a decade, and during this time I’ve met a LOT of excellent programmers. Most of them are... more »
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5 Steps to Improve E-Commerce Performance for Increased Sales: Backend Performance
In the previous post we presented problems encountered by our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market... more »
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Using Peer Code Reviews as a Professional Development Tool
Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of developers. Overall, I have found them to be intelligent, witty,... more »
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Functional Programming in 5 Minutes
Functional Programming in 5 Minutes
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Data-Driven Test Automation
Greetings, fellow testers. I recently attended a workshop on Acceptance Test Driven Development, during which the presenter spoke about... more »
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How to automatically choose a camera viewing angle of any 3D model
When I wrote stljs, a library to read, write, and convert STL to PNG, one of the things I had to decide was how to calculate where the... 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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Legacy Code Preservation: Some Patterns
With modern languages and tools, legacy code conversion is quite simple. The impediments are simply managerial in nature. No one wants to... more »
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How About Learning F***ing Programming?
At every software development conference, the rooms are filled with speakers wanting to teach you the newest framework or the hottest... more »
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Refactoring Fat Models with Patterns
“Fat models” cause maintenance issues in large apps. Only incrementally better than cluttering controllers with domain logic, they... more »
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Testers and Developers, Can We Please Get Along?
Jokes about “stupid developers” are still lurking in the corners, stories of “throwing things over the wall to development” continue to... more »
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Slack, the missing concept
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This article is oriented to teams with mid-level proficiency in an Agile process, like mine. Impostor syndrome at work or new... more »
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Bezier Curves Part 1 [Linear Algebra Series]
Starting off, what is a Bezier Curve? It is a curve defined by 2 or more control points which determine how the curve looks. The first... more »
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The Toxic Defense of the Status Quo
If you take anything away from this cautionary tale it is to constantly be on the look out for those that adhere to the status quo. It... more »
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5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 5-17-13
This week: Netflix CIO Mike Kail on redefining IT, the twisted mind of the software tester and promoting Agile in Waterfall culture.
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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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Using TraceView to Identify and Solve Query Loop Problems
We’ve got another video in our series on common web app performance problems. This time – we’re looking into how to identify and solve... more »
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Using ASM to calculate test coverage in a new way. (Java)
Using ASM to calculate test coverage in a new way. ASM is an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework.
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Book Review: The Economics of Software Quality by Capers Jones
The Economics of Software Quality, a book by Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour, provides solutions to quantify Software Quality which... more »
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WPF For the WinForms Coder- Part 2
This isn't exactly a "tutorial" but is a part of this 'WPF for the WinForms coder' transitional series. We all know that Visual... more »
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No-nonsense plain English introduction to ESB and SOA
A quick no-nonsense introduction to key concepts behind ESB and SOA. This is part of Zato, a Python-based ESB and app server.
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Domain Events with Ninject and ASP.Net Web API
How to hook up domain events to concrete implementations using Ninject as an IoC container and the ASP.Net Web API.
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