Personal Programming
"Why not grab an open source program and modify it to fit your needs?" "You do realize that you decided to write an entirely new system... more »
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Top seven UML cheatsheets
Great quick reference guides for the UML notation
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Gmail Priority Inbox: Another Innovative Feature
Just browsing through my emails I noticed Try Gmail Priority Inbox on top right hand corner just after my user id. Out of curiosity I... more »
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Is Silverlight becoming a niche technology?
A lot of reactions started on Twitter this morning following the publication of the article titled “The Future of Silverlight” on the... more »
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Why describing your project is a good idea and why people won't steal it
Way to often, when you talk to your friends about your great idea, you just came up with "I have this new idea, but well, I can't talk to... more »
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Breaking news... Progress and Savvion steal candy from a baby!!!
So by now you've probably already read: Progress Buy a Bridge in Brooklyn (Savvion BRMS) and make Del Boy Trotter Proud Breaking... more »
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I am an Exception Extremist
Had a code review today, and I realized that I am an exception extremist, an exception bigot if you will. I don’t like exceptions. ... more »
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Nobody cares what tools you use
I’ve spent almost all of my career with something along the lines of “freelancer”, “consultant”, or “contractor” on my business cards and... more »
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Clojure or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parentheses
I'm a longtime Java, Ruby, and Python programmer. Yet Clojure is the first language I've used that I truly enjoy using on a daily basis.
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Groovy to the rescue, in under 70 lines of code
Show hoow Groovy was used to solve a minor inconvenience in day to day activities. Will touch up on some database access / sql, a tiny... more »
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Axis of Evil (Oracle)
There’s a wide sense of lament since Oracle has taken over Sun and their intellectual property, including MySQL, Java, Solaris and their... more »
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Things I Love About IntelliJ IDEA: The Impossible is Possible
Grazer continues his series on "Things I Love About IntelliJ IDEA" and discusses some of the features that he feels are on the more exciting side.
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What's your motivation for programming?
Studies since the 1970s that show that Intrinsic motivation (from within) rather than Extrinsic motivation (external factors like money)... more »
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Gorkem Ercan: Oracle's dislike of MIDP 3.0
The final release of the JSR 271 Mobile Information Device Profile 3 (MIDP 3.0) specification was done on December 9 2009. Unlike the... more »
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It's time for Lotus to double-down on Linux and open source
Open source is under assault more in 2010 than at any other time in recent history. At a time when Microsoft is making disturbing inroads... more »
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The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL
It is a poorly kept secret that NoSQL is not really about eliminating SQL from database systems (e.g., see these links). Rather, systems... more »
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Developers - Tips to not flop on your next interview
Interview tips from an interviewer for developers, direct from the trenches.
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Here's the Secret Behind Almost Every Application Software Development Disaster !!!!
Believe it or not - it's so simple - everyone in software development should instantly recognize it. By the time you finish reading this... more »
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How To Adopt Agile
How To Adopt Agile, Experienced rich blog
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Databases: Normalization or Denormalization. Which is the better technique?
This has really been a long debate as to which approach is more performance orientated, normalized databases or denormalized databases.... more »
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Perfection in the IT – or “less is more”
Mirko Novakovic
via blog.codecentric.de
“Perfection is reached not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” (A.... more »
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Properties - Discussion
This post is all about why Properties are useful and ultimately why Sgine uses them. Properties as a term is bandied about in many... more »
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Moving the Server to the Browser
I think that it’s well-established by now that the majority of desktop software will move to the browser at some point. It happened to... more »
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Are You a Casualty of This Biggest Software Development Disaster?
When IT projects fail, software design or software process issues like requirements management are usually the first to come up on... more »
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Towards a Statically Typed Universe?
I give my opinion on typing; I offer a tool for those working with compile based programming languages to make them better.
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