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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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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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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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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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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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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Functional Programming in 5 Minutes
Functional Programming in 5 Minutes
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The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript
Great design is a product of care and attention applied to areas that matter, resulting in a useful, understandable, and hopefully... more »
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Data-Driven Test Automation
Greetings, fellow testers. I recently attended a workshop on Acceptance Test Driven Development, during which the presenter spoke about... 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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Daniel Cook on 8 Laws of Productivity
Daniel Cook has a great PDF on the 8 Laws of Productivity. The subtitle is “8 Productivity Experiments You Don’t Need to Repeat.”... more »
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JIRA 6.0 - confident movement to nowhere?
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Atlassian spent almost a year on improving JIRA project management tool. What has been done and what was expected for 6.0 version?
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Android Studio Features
Android Studio is an IDE based on IntelliJ IDEA used for android application development. It is released on15th may 2013. This tool has... more »
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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Legacy Code Preservation: Some Patterns
With modern languages and tools, legacy code conversion is quite simple. The impediments are simply managerial in nature. No one wants to... 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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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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Book Review: Async in C# 5.0
This is a book purely on async. It's not a general C# book, and it doesn't even cover the tiny non-async features in C# 5. It's all about... more »
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Mastering the Requirements Process
In an era where managing requirements could seem to be limited to writing user stories with a “as a … I want … so that” format on a... more »
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Because PEOPLE. Because PASSION
For the last 12.5 years (start date: October 9, 2000), I’ve worked at a wonderful marketing firm, with great benefits & freedom. I’ve... 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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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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Yahoo Goes Big and Buys Tumblr
Yahoo’s board has approved a billion-dollar-plus layout to buy Tumblr.
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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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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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