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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Functional Programming in 5 Minutes
Functional Programming in 5 Minutes
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Statistical Formulas For Programmers
Being able to apply statistics is like having a secret superpower. Where most people see averages, you see confidence intervals. When... more »
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Are You Making These 10 Web Design Mistakes?
Web usability is something that most online publishers spend time on, but few spend enough time on. Design and usability – like traffic... more »
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Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23
Another uplift has left the building and it’s time to take a look at what’s in Firefox Developer Tools in Firefox 23 currently Aurora,... more »
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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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AngularJS, Dependency Injection, and when is a singleton not a Singleton?
Singletons have some use cases, but it is generally considered poor form to use them. They are especially bothersome when you start... more »
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Neverwinter’s High Priority Bug
From the outside, writing code can seem closer to the practice of mathematics than something like painting or sculpture. Not so.... more »
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Review of the SATURN 2013 Architecture Conference
I attended the SATURN 2013 conference in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, which is an annual practitioner conference about software... more »
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How to Argue About Code.
None of us would be very good developers if we never had arguments about The Best Way to Do Things. But I've had enough silly arguments... 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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Beginning C for Arduino
Working with the Arduino is usually seen as a hardware problem, but what about the software? This book aims to educate you about the C... more »
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Creating “Good” Android Apps
You have heard people say it: “App X is a good app”. You didn’t think about it at the time, but it begs the question. What makes a good... more »
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The Stand Up Desk Rises to the Occasion
Joel Cochran experiments with a few standing desk strategies and settles on a desk that moves up and down. You should check out the pics.... more »
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Absolute Estimating vs. Relative Estimating
I’ve started work on some new videos and this time it’s all about Agile Estimating, Planning and Contracts. This is the obvious next step... 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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ZeroMQ in Grizzly
From the OpenStack summit comes a lightning talk presentation on an implementation within the OpenStack IaaS software using the ZeroMQ... more »
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Announcing CloudHub availability in Europe
I’m thrilled to announce the availability of CloudHub in Europe. With this announcement, we’re extending the industry-leading CloudHub... more »
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These Moments are Precious
The moments when excitement builds throughout the whole team at the delight of discovery and creativity are precious. These moments feel... more »
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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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Using Viewbox for Automatic Control Scaling in Windows Phone
Presenting content of varied size can often be tricky. For example, displaying names of metro stations with fixed font size, and it... more »
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