4 Great Ways For Turning the Tables on a Bad Interviewer ?
You're wearing your best suit. Shoes shined. Resume in hand.
The Analysis of Choosing the Right Images and Stock Photography Sites
The use of imagery for websites is a great way of feeding your users with information, allowing them to visualize the scenario which sometimes words... more »
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Eventual Consistency by Example
Recently, there has been a lot of chitchat about the eventual consistency model as illustrated in the famous Amazon Dynamo paper, and today employed... more »
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Top 9 Companies With the Best Job Security ?
With unemployment reaching and expected to surpass 10%, job security is one of the top desires of employees today.
Maven Rambling
Morning train ride is always a nice ride for me as I start fresh and my mind is ready for another jam packed action, so I fired up my laptop and was... more »
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The Evolution of Design: How 10 Popular Sites Looked 10 Years Ago
Let's go back 10 years and see just what the "Kings of the Internet" looked back then. Brace yourself.
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Breadcrumb Navigation Examined: Best Practices & Examples
Breadcrumb navigation is often overlooked in the design and development process. Some people may see it as unnecessary while others may feel it is too... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/4
New releases from Red Hat and K Desktop Environment are available. An update to KDE 4.3 fixes several bugs and Red Hat rolls out its new Enterprise... more »
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Learning with Grails: Security, Extjs, REST, Spring Insight
Posting including a lot of good general information about using grails to explore authentication and authorization using the spring-security plugin... more »
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Anti-patterns
Nothing prevents a programmer from implementing a coupled and ineffective solution, maybe without even knowing it, and just like with the more famous... more »
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Programming Contest, Win a Motorola DROID and $1k in Cloud Credit!
The goal of this contest is to collaborate with your other contestants to build the “worst app server technology ever” (WASTE), and use it to complete... more »
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Browser Speed Tests: The Windows 7 Results
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being "faster." We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows... more »
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10 Boilerplate Phrases That Kill Resumes
The 2009 job market is very different from job markets of the past. If you haven't job-hunted in a while, the changes in the landscape can throw you... more »
When and How to Dump a Client
Client satisfaction gives us reputation and credibility, however, every now and again we will come across a problematic client. Find out when and how... more »
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Oops! I Did It Again, I Made a Freelance Mistake
Some of the most common mistakes made by almost every freelancer. Find out how to avoid these mistakes to become a fully successful freelancer.
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Warren Buffett’s Advice to Budding Freelancers and Entrepreneurs
In 2008, Warren Buffett was ranked the richest person in the world and now he's got something to say to all your entrepreneurs and freelancers. Read... more »
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10 Commandments of Facebook
The rise of social media has made it easier than ever to keep in touch with friends, relatives and coworkers. With a few keystrokes you can reconnect... more »
17 Websites for Sharing Programming Knowledge
17 forums and blogs for finding answers to your programming questions and contributing your knowledge.
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New JVM options and Scala iteration performance
Internal iterators like foreach tend to do very well in micro-benchmarks on the JVM. In fact, they often do as well as the equivalent manual while or... more »
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5 Things You Can't Explain in a Job Interview ?
One of the most alarming bits of job-search advice going around says, "You don't have to explain everything in a cover letter and a resume.
Fundamental flaw with 3D Secure
3D Secure is the payment industries Internet authentication standard and is considered to be the online version of chip and pin. The change password... more »
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Serif vs. sans-serif legibility
Probably one of everlasting discussion is legibility issue of serif and sans-serif fonts...
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Concurrency Patterns: Java, Scala, and Clojure
There are advantages and drawbacks to any concurrency model. Java, Scala and Clojure are compared/contrasted in terms of difficulty, efficiency, speed... more »
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ldd arbitrary code executon
The `ldd` utility is more vulnerable than you think. It’s frequently used by programmers and system administrators to determine the dynamic library... more »
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