The Missed Opportunity of Coursera
Instead, Coursera should abandon scheduled terms and have standing classes.
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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 »
Pure CSS3 Navigation Menu Generators and Tutorials
Depend on how much time you have, we have found a few pure CSS3 menu generators and also a handful of online tutorials that will teach... more »
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Blend Color Trends and Flat Designs Perfectly
Precisely, flat design is a process in which designers’ uses simple techniques with simple effects. A flat design does not contain any... more »
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Lessons Learned from 0 to 40,000 Readers
I share a few lessons I've learned writing a tech blog for a year, from how to use twitter to formatting code.
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5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 5-10-13
This week, we look at The Open Computing Project's push into open source networking switches, how to determine if a new software language... more »
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Really Great Ways to Ruin a Job Interview
No, it’s not okay to answer your phone, answer questions with painful literalness, take an interview in the middle of another job... more »
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Code Review: Worth the Time?
In a recent survey on code review that we conducted with more than 600 developers, the No. 1 reason given by developers for not doing... more »
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Mobile Designing Color Trends with Examples
If we talk about quality, I can confidently say that mobile design has grown immensely. We see a lot of quality trends in mobile... more »
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Alternatives to cookie tracking
Cookies are a fundamental mechanism used in advertising industry for ad personalisation and behavioural targeting, re-targeting,... more »
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Why is Facebook blue? The science of colors in marketing
Why is Facebook blue? According to The New Yorker, the reason is simple. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. This means... more »
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Older programmers are more knowledgeable, but harder to find
By now you've seen the studies based on Stack Overflow data suggesting that, as they age, programmers become more knowledgeable about... more »
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ACID v BASE
A few thoughts on ACID, transactions, CAP, and BASE. The impact of NoSQL and the requirements of ACID and transactions, the emergence of... more »
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Teaching programming, we have a huge problem
I’ve been a professional programmer now for over a decade, and during this time I’ve met a LOT of excellent programmers. Most of them are... 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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Top Version Control Systems used by PHP Developers
Version Control Systems are important tools that every developer should be using. However, for many developers version control systems do... more »
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10 great free monospaced fonts for programming
A good choice of font for your coding activites can make a huge difference and improve your productivity, so take a look at the fonts in... 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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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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5 Reasons Why the Web Platform War is Over: PHP Won with 75% says Google
During Google I/O 2013 event a Google manager said PHP runs on 75% of the Web sites. So they decided to finally support PHP as in their... more »
Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 1)
Get some advice for dealing with burnout or if you find that you don't want to program anymore. Plus some important news about the JS... 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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The Kirk and Spock Approaches to Big Data
In the Star Trek Book of Management, there are two approaches to big data decision making: The Kirk way and the Spock way. Which type are you?
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