Maven Makes Developers Feel Stupid
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via furiouspurpose.blogspot.com
Although Maven has its benefits, its documentation is often spartan and scattered, and sometimes it can be quite painful to figure out how to... more »
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The Death of Google's Patents
bloid via patentlyo.com
The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps... more »
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Interviewing software developers: You’re doing it wrong
bloid via lazycoder.com
So as it stands, programming interviews are said to be less about the technical knowledge and more about determining how a person thinks. Which is... more »
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Scrum World: I am a developer
Stefan Koopmanschap via henneberke.wordpress.com
# First thing in the morning, I check the scrum board to see which task is in progress and assigned to me # I don’t have anything in progress, so it... more »
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A New Competitor to LCD
A pixel that uses a pair of mirrors to block or transmit light could lead to displays that are faster, brighter, and more power efficient than liquid... more »
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Scrum - Agile Development Creates Culture for Software Development
Software development used to be devoid of significance and culture, because it used to be a solitary activity. This article examines the rituals... more »
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Apache Archiva 1.1 Released
Apache Archiva 1.1 has been released with 89 fixes and features including RSS, virtual repositories, web-based artifact uploads, configurable remote... more »
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Top 5 Office Don'ts
A humorous take on office etiquette.
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Have startups run out of ideas?
bloid via blogs.guardian.co.uk
Paul Graham - the brains behind the early-stage web incubator project Y Combinator - has published something like a manifesto of ideas for startups he... more »
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The 7 deadly sins and 10 lessons of a failed startup
Failure is part of the maturing process in the startup world. If you haven't failed...you aren't trying hard enough, or you aren't "pushing the... more »
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A Programming Job Interview Challenge #13 - Brackets
Your input is a string which is composed from bracket characters. The allowed characters are:’(', ‘)’, ‘['. ']‘, ‘{’, ‘}’, ‘’. Your mission is to... more »
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History Tables
bloid via database-programmer.blogspot.com
This week in the Database Programmer Blog we return to table design patterns with an essay on history tables. The basic premise of this blog is that... more »
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How to convert Firefox Extensions To Firefox 3
Guide to convert Firefox extensions so they work with Firefox 3
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Will Microsoft ever learn? (Windows 7 buzz)
Microsoft is already working on Windows 7, formerly known as Blackcomb or Vienna, and is scheduled to release early 2010.
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The Microsoft VMware Smack Down: Perspectives behind the Headlines
A collection of blog posts from Archimedius about the smack down between VMware and Microsoft as analysts prepare for VMware's upcoming earnings... more »
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Are You Ready For Firefox 3.1?
It may seem as if the Firefox 3 release cycle went on forever, especially if you hopped on board with the earliest betas. Many of us are still... more »
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Coding Horror: Dealing With Bad Apples
After reading this story, I had to resist the urge to lean forward, hand placed thoughtfully under my chin, brow furrowed, and ask -- have you tried... more »
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Go Easy on the Maintenance Programmer
bloid via mcherm.com
“Maintenance Programmer“: This common, and underappreciated species of programmer is often heard muttering and cursing under their breath. Sometimes... more »
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How We Integrated our Offshore Development Team
Interesting first-hand account of how a software development team integrated its UK team with Bangalore India and the process it utilized.
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Quartz Framework
tries to introduce quartz framework and provide few samples and imp links.
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Geek slang perls from The New Hackers Dictionary
Over 30 amusing terms hand picked from the Jargon File (AKA The New Hackers Dictionary).
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True Temporal Based RDBMS engines
When I teach, I frequently discuss temporal based data sets - after all, that's a big piece of what data warehousing and BI is about - Data Over Time.... more »
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Thoughts on the latest release candidate for MySQL 5.1
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Now that MySQL has decided to ready the final Release Candidate (RC) for version 5.1 instead of moving forward with a General Availability (GA)... more »
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SoyLatte To Be Integrated Into OpenJDK
That means that all of the BSD Java changes, including the SoyLatte Mac OS X port, can now be sent to the OpenJDK project, and an official BSD porters... more »
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Creating a UnifiedToolBarButtonUI
A little while back, I talked about creating a Unified Toolbar. In that post I included a class called an EmphasizedLabel, which was an extension of... more »
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