The 14 characters you meet as a coder
Are you a Developer Diva? Perhaps a Holy Priest of technology? Or maybe you're the Hipster Hacker from Hell? Let's find out ...
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Who nailed the principles of great UI design? Microsoft, that's who
A 12-year-old MSDN article still rings true -- and provides excellent guidance when JavaScript may be giving us too much to play with
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Not having a job is bad. Having a job that you hate is worse.
Article about getting out of the loop, is it worth to quit your job ? What makes you happy ? Do you love what you do ?
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Fixing Java production problems with New Relic
Originally appearing in JAX Magazine, Dan Delany goes hunting in the haystack with New Relic, and tells us why application performance... more »
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Thoughts on Google I/O 2013
Google I/O 2013 has ended and while we saw a few new things on the Android front, this year's event was much more dialed back than 2012... more »
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6 Ways to Determine a New Programming Language is a Turkey
People invent new programming languages all of the time. Some languages look terrible from the outset and you know to avoid them. Quite a... more »
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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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The Missed Opportunity of Coursera
Instead, Coursera should abandon scheduled terms and have standing classes.
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Git: Who care about branches? It is all about code reviews.
Using Git has made our team much better by removing barriers to collaboration and code reviews. Those are the real Git benefits, not... more »
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Google I/O – Android Highlights
Overview of Google I/O from the Android perspective
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Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is
Big data! If you don’t have it, you better get yourself some. Your competition has it, after all. Bottom line: If your data is little,... more »
Signs that you're a good programmer
The most frequently viewed page on this site is Signs you're a bad programmer, which has also now been published on dead trees by Hacker... more »
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Martin Fowler: User Stories
User Stories are chunks of desired behavior of a software system. They are widely used in agile software approaches to divide up a large... more »
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Ultimate Resources For Mobile Web Application Design
In this post, I have put together just over 70 resources for developing mobile websites and web applications. This collection is more... more »
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EnumSet in Java - RegularEnumSet vs JumboEnumSet
Javin Paul explains the usefulness of the Java special implementation, as well as examples and usecases
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10 reasons to learn Java Programming
10 reasons to learn Java programming language and why Java is one of the best programming
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How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 1)
I’ve been in the IT industry for almost 8 years working in 4 different companies. During this time I had a chance to work with a couple... more »
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I Am a Bad Software Developer
The last four months of my life have been spent in the pursuit of getting to know myself better. It all started about seven months ago... more »
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Step-by-Step, Getting Your Website/SaaS Tool Built
Want to make your internet dream a reality? Here's what's involved.
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Agile, Technical Debt & Resign Patterns: Interview with @ppapapetrou76
An agile enthousiast who seeks excellence in software engineering. This is how Patroklos Papapetrou defines himself. Let’s have a... more »
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Book Review: Effective Unit Testing: A Guide for Java Developers
It is easy for me to recommend this book to Java developers who feel they have room to improve in writing of unit tests of Java... more »
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Lessons Learned from 0 to 40,000 Readers
I share a few lessons I've learned writing a tech blog for a year, from how to use twitter to formatting code.
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The 10 rules of a Zen programmer
On a rainy morning I found myself sitting on the desk thinking about efficient working. Before I started as a freelancer I had some days... more »
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An Ode to the Re-Inventors of the Wheel
I mean, where would we be with wheels the shape of a rock rounded by nature? Bumping along with head and neck injuries? No thank you!
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