Yoke with Vert.x 2 is a faster alternative to Express JS!
Simple benchmarks show that the upcoming Vert.x 2 Framework with Yoke as the middleware layer can provide better performance than Express... more »
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Linux Mint 15 Most Ambitious Release Ever
Clement Lefebvre, Mint founder and lead, recently announced the public release of Linux Mint 15 Release Candidate. Mint 15 brings lots of... more »
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Leadership in Software Development.
Developers are very logical and analytical. In the world of DiSC, which is a behavior assessment tool, most programmers fall into the D... more »
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Professional jQuery
jQuery is mostly easy to use - it would have to be to become so popular - but that doesn't mean that there aren't some more sophisticated... more »
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Certified Agile - The PMI-ACP Exam
Experience and general reading aren’t enough to prepare for a PMI certification exam. PMI wants everyone who holds a certification to... more »
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Taking One for the Team...the Refactoring of Failure
Allowing for a bank holiday and foreseeable absences, the team's Sprint Planning budget came to around 42 story points. Unfortunately,... 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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A Look at How ZeroMQ Became a Leading Message-Passing Library
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Pieter Hintjens, a maintainer of ZeroMQ: The Definitive Guide, discusses the patterns, the code, and the community behind this... more »
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Legacy Code Preservation: Why Preserve the DSL?
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A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) can provide some intellectual leverage. We can always write long and convoluted programs in a... more »
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What is ODBC?
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According to Microsoft, ODBC is a specification for a database API. This API is database and operating system agnostic due to the fact... 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 Reliability of Go
As part of the Canonical Cloud Sprint taking place in San Francisco last week I attended Dave Cheney's talk at the GoSF meetup on the... more »
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What's New in Firefox 21
Firefox has come of age. In version numbers, that is. Firefox 21 was released on May 14, 2013. If you’ve not received the update, click... more »
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Summary of the Schneide Dev Brunch at 2013-03-03
If you couldn't attend the Schneide Dev Brunch in March 2013, here are the main topics we discussed summarized as good as I remember them.
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$200K for a computer science degree? Or these free online classes?
If you do the work, you can get a computer science education online rivaling that of the Ivy League. Here's a nice little curriculum for you
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The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity
As a User Experience (UX) designer, I spend a lot of time with pen and paper, sketching interfaces, testing ideas, and fleshing out... more »
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Where Is .NET Headed?
I watched the dotNetConf .NET Open Source Panel last week. It was a bit disappointing to hear defeatism in the voices of OSS project... more »
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The Big List of 256 Programming Languages
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I am not recommending a specific language over others at this time, but providing a long list of languages based on GitHub and TIOBE.
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Learn A New Programming Language Every Year?
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As I thought about it I realized that it isn’t important for it to be a language that you learn, it is just important that you learn... 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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Objective-C Literals
Three new features were introduced into clang at the same time: NSNumber Literals provide a syntax for creating NSNumber from scalar... more »
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The Sorry State of the Anti-Software Patents Movment
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Paul Hammant takes a broad look at the anti-software patent organizations, old and new, and where we are right now in the process of... more »
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Estimates in Software Development - New Frontiers.
I think we should embrace estimate distribution and invent new ways to model and use it. We shouldn’t fight it. This will be a war... more »
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The Missed Opportunity of Coursera
Instead, Coursera should abandon scheduled terms and have standing classes.
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Gambling in Software
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I want to tell you about a meeting we had a few days ago. It reminded me of “The Jack Story” (which was part of an old stage routine of... more »
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