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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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 »
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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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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XFA Forms Vs Swing Forms
In this article we take a look a XFA forms and what considerations has to be taken when you convert XFA forms into Java based Swing Forms.
How to Argue About Code
None of us would be very good software developers if we never had arguments about The Best Way to Do Things. But I’ve had enough silly... more »
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Crawling AJAX Web sites using HTML5 pushState support - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 30
Now that both Google and Bing support crawling sites that use HTML5 history pushState, developers are free to use it in AJAX based Web... more »
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Fear Causes Us to Build the Wrong Thing
The classic tale of a year-long project finally being delivered only to discover it doesn’t meet the needs of the customer sounds... more »
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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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The Next Gutenberg Moment is Now
Reading this definition triggered this article: I already wrote about knowledge value and cost and this is somewhat related, but it... more »
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Why most companies can’t find “good” software engineers! Part one
It seems like a cliche, but there is a serious war on talent going on in the corporate world where several companies complain that they... more »
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Why I chose Go for Nuuton
Building a search engine is no easy task. There are many problems that one has to attack. It is quite the challenge. Search engines... more »
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The Twisted Personality of the Software Tester
Software testing truly is an altruistic endeavor. Being willing to stand up for quality in the face of a development, business or... more »
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You Don’t Have to be a Genius to be a Programmer
I remember coming home from a long day of coding a few years ago. I was living with a friend from high school and his girlfriend was over... more »
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Kirk McDonald: Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You
If you're at all interested in media, technology or related fields, please learn a little computer programming.
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Sell first, build later
Framebase.io is a video API built by developers for developers. As such, our founding team consists of three highly technical software... 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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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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JAX Magazine May - Back into the clouds, talking OpenStack, Stratos and Kotlin
Available as a PDF, on iPad and on Android, the latest edition of our free JAX Magazine is now ready to download!
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Why Most Agile Adoptions Fail
This short video introduces some ideas that will help us map why we can’t get agile going and take effective steps to actually succeed with it.
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Why are clients shocked by the price for web development?
The average small business needs a website with their hours, phone number, some pictures, and maybe a blog that they'll never actually... more »
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HTTP as Imagined versus HTTP as Found
On the left is a pristine network diagram. On the right is how most networks look in practice. This isn’t to bemoan the death of cable... 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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Bad Advice: “Stop Working So Hard”
Would we ever want to live in a world where working harder didn’t amount to anything more, but rather ended up returning you less?
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