The Free-to-Play Gaming Evolution | allenc
Games have come a long way since when they cost $80 and came in cardboard boxes with terrible cover art. The mechanism of funding... more »
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Continuous Delivery and Long-Term Requirements
In this talk, Paul Gerrard discusses continuous delivery, particularly as it pertains to long-term requirements. Testing up front, he... more »
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C# Best Coding Practices for Developers to Follow
In this article, I will try to list down some C# best practices which a C# developer must follow during development of a project. These... more »
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How to crack a Telephonic Interview?
This is an important step for both the interviewer and the interviewee. Just as a personal interview, there are some basic dos and... more »
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Performance matters when writing, too: more SQL tips
Programmers generally recognize that SQL can be optimized: experts often rewrite queries to take only a fraction of the time of their... more »
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Concurrent introduce Hadoop machine learning tool Pattern
Following March’s $4m investment, Cascading company Concurrent have made their latest Big Data move, pushing a new free Hadoop workflow... more »
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Because PEOPLE. Because PASSION
For the last 12.5 years (start date: October 9, 2000), I’ve worked at a wonderful marketing firm, with great benefits & freedom. I’ve... more »
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Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
We put Mozilla's JavaScript subset—asm.js—to the test and it worked really, Really well.
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Useful Eclipse Plugins that didn't made it to the Top 10 list
List of Useful Eclipse Plugins that didn't made it to the Top 10 list
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Personal Transformation is the Heart of Organizational Transformation
In the classic personal growth book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey states that private victory precedes public... 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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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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What if Enterprise IT Built Race Cars?
How a race car would turn out if it were developed by the equivalent of an Enterprise IT department (without DevOps).
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Escape Process’ Death Valley, or How to Tell a Cat From a Washing Machine
More and more leading edge thinkers are starting to focus on this dichotomy of approaches – organic vs mechanical. Each rightly has it’s... more »
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Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably
As recently as this week, I’ve been involved in conversations with customers about how we can help make their teams deliver more... more »
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Why I'm Trying Literate Programming
I decided to experiment with literate programming recently because I felt like something must be wrong with this story: A colleague and I... more »
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The Appreciation Gap
A simple thank you can make a difference; appreciation builds good will, and reminds people that they are valued as human beings, not... 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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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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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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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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How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 2)
This is the second part of the article in which I’m sharing a list of simple tips that, in my opinion, can help programmers succeed at... more »
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Dev of the Week: Mahdi Yusuf
This week we're talking to Mahdi Yusuf, developer at Source Metrics, active member of the Python community, and creator of Neckbeard Republic.
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Only 4 Roles
When creating something of value, the first people we care about are those who will get value from the product we create. I call these... more »
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"Say Goodbye to Anonymity"
As CBS showed, Intel is already selling software to recognize the rough demographic of an individual in order to deliver more a targeted... more »
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