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New "Orphaned Works" Copyright Bill Threatens Open Source, GPL
A new bill, The Orphan Works Act of 2008, is currently making its way through congress, and it threatens to take away copyright protection from... more »
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Ruby’s Vulnerability Handling Debacle
A bit over a week has now gone by after critical vulnerabilities in ruby’s runtime were announced and a couple of interesting developments occurred.
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TDD Anti-Patterns
Recently I began to write a paper on TDD Anti-Patterns, and decided to first quickly jot down some of the most common ones that others or myself have... more »
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Build an American Flag out of XHTML and CSS
To celebrate our upcoming Independence Day (because I am a Yankee), I took a bit of time and created the CSS and XHTML USA flag you see above.
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Working with web developers in India: why, whom, and how
Ryan Norbauer has been there, done that and taken copious notes — where the “there” is his consulting firm, the “that” Indian outsourcing and the... more »
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Whitespace Sensitivity
I was reading a thread on ruby-forum.com about Python that said that the whitespace-sensitivity of Python is from hell or something. There are people... more »
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Twitter's weakening pulse - The scalability "Penalty"
If we want to be successful we can't afford making scalability an afterthought.
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Writing reusable jQuery modules: Make everything a plugin
If I take care never to write a single line of code without packaging it as a plugin, the architectural part of my brain kicks in.
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Microsoft Releases Interop Docs: Is This What Data Portability Looks Like?
Microsoft is announcing this morning the release of thousands of pages of technical documents concerning its most prized software, with the stated... more »
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Web hosting a downward trend?
We noticed an interesting thing the other day while doing some research with Google Trends. The number of searches in Google for the term “web... more »
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BEA gets last laugh on Oracle app server
In Oracle's world nothing changes, everything stays the same and no products ever die. Except those things that get "converged" or downgraded.
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Source Code Licenses and Flash/Flex
I've devoted quite a lot of time and energy to research and synthesize information on some of the most popular source code licenses being used in the... more »
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Get Started With Django
Django was designed from the ground up to handle two common web developer challenges: intensive deadlines and strict adherence to the Don't Repeat... more »
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10 Open Souce or Free Flash or Flex Code Libraries You Need To Check Out
Build, steal, buy, or borrow… These would be the four basic ways you can make your applications a reality, pretty much regardless of the language you... more »
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Intel says to prepare for 'thousands of cores'
Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.
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This Word, "Scaling"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya
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Facebook: Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos
An excellent talk that I really enjoyed. I used to lead a much smaller service that also used a lot of NetApp storage and I recognized many of the... more »
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Advice to the Young Developer (Part 1)
This is my advice to the young developer. This is targeted to pre-college age people who are interested in programming.
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Export Data from Google's Services
Google mentioned in many occasions that it doesn't want to trap users' data and some of its services have started to provide import/export options.... more »
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Higher-Order Java Parallelism, Part 2: Parallel List Transformations
With a Callable monad and Parallel Strategies in hand, we’re ready to construct some general-purpose parallel functions of a higher order.
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The Steve Jobs Standard
Ever since the black turtlenecked one appeared at the Worldwide Developers Conference, there has been no shortage of discussion about the health of... more »
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Agile IT Experience… 5 closing thoughts
I’ve been home from the Agile IT Experience for almost 24 hours now. I’ve had enough time to recover from the travel and lack of sleep. So, thinking... more »
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What programming language should we teach?
What language (or languages) should we be teaching at the high school level to introduce kids to computer science and programmatic thinking? I’m not... more »
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Joel Spolsky on Bill Gates as a Leader
When I graduated from college, in 1991, I started working for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on the Excel team. My title was program manager. I was supposed... more »
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A simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDB
We recently had cause to utilise the latest addition to Amazon's Web Services platform, SimpleDB. There are a number of Java libraries to get up and... more »
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