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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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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Domain Driven Design to Speed us Up by Opening Options
DDD is not about saving effort "sometime in the future", it provides value by actually speeding up the development effort now.... 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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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 21)
Today: The sketchy world of DDoSaaS, Apple's taxes, bringing the power of NumPy to HPC, why Googlers aren't using Glass at I/O, and some... more »
Building Your I.T. Career: Breaking In to I.T.
This chapter analyzes the “need experience to get experience” dilemma that those who are new to the I.T. field often encounter. More... more »
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Postgres Demystified
Learn about the Postgres features and why you should consider it for your next project. These include: Datatypes Using other languages... more »
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Yahoo Goes Big and Buys Tumblr
Yahoo’s board has approved a billion-dollar-plus layout to buy Tumblr.
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Decoding Conference Presentation Titles For Busy Developers
Have you ever hesitated which session to attend on a multi-track conference? Here is a short guide that should help you quickly figure... more »
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10 Hibernate question asked in Interviews for Java J2EE developer
Hibernate has become core persistence framework, much like Spring MVC in presentation layer. This article contains a list of Hibernate... more »
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Google I/O – Android Highlights
Overview of Google I/O from the Android perspective
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Just add mobility: JSF and JSP with ICEmobile
Developing mobile UIs is a tricky business, especially with the market changing by the minute. ICEsoft chief software architect Ted... more »
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R.I.P. JavaBlogs
Atlassian shut down JavaBlogs the original go-to blog aggregator for Java.
The Internet of Things gets a "stargate" in Eclipse Ponte
New project aims to increase security, standardise data formats and messaging protocols.
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My response to “7 Open Source Projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid)”
I’ve been meaning to write an article about a few of the communities in the open source world. However, I believe that the article “7... more »
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Let's Measure Something Meaningless
Measuring something meaningful is hard, so let’s measure something that is meaningless but easy. Like your hours at work!
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We're All Born to Blog
After reading Tao of Twitter and Return on Influence written by Mark, and Stanford’s reputation, my expectations were high.
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5 Reasons Why the Web Platform War is Over: PHP Won with 75% says Google
During Google I/O 2013 event a Google manager said PHP runs on 75% of the Web sites. So they decided to finally support PHP as in their... more »
Just how fast is JBoss Middleware?
Let Radical Rich show you how in this demonstration video from 855 ft up in the air!
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Patenting Open Source Software
Patenting FOSS may help in some cases, but the nature of FOSS development itself may mean that patenting some collaboratively developed... more »
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'But Where Should I Go, What Should I Do?'
This is exactly what many developers are left thinking when their dependent application is stripped away from the proverbial teat that of... more »
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Stupid Questions and n00bs: 10 Intriguing Things You Should Do
It really doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in this industry or which position you hold, understanding generation n00b and the value it... more »
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In case of emergency, System.exit
Article covering the System.exit method and why it is advisable to avoid using it unless absolutely necessary.
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A perspective: developers vs Microsoft
Most people understand that Windows is used by a variety of people who have a variety of needs, ranging from corporate server to... more »
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Certified Agile: the PMI-ACP Exam
What's the point of PMI's Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification? What's it like to sit for the exam - and what do you need... more »
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