Dependency Injection is Broken
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Earlier today I was reading a blog about the worthlessness of constructors. Frankly, I didn't really get the point of the post, but the title was... more »
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How To Not Fit In On A Development Team
I’ve stated several times in the past that being a software developer today involves so much more than just being able to whip up code… it involves... more »
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Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea
Why exposing the database through a web-service (RESTful or otherwise) is wrong.
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Java GUI finally looks AWESOME !
Java GUI finally looks AWESOME ! With Java 1.6 Update 10 beta everything in Swing is like SWT and native components. Everything is smooth.
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NetBeans Development Process Rocks!
David van Couvering, Database Architect for NetBeans, shares his enthusiasm for the NetBeans development process below.
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My Secret Weapon to Getting Contracts
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In my first days of freelance web design, I did all the right things to get business — web-site done, Chamber of Commerce joined, social media... more »
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Game over for Vista?
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its... more »
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Developers are not good testers. What you say?
Developers test their own code. Then why testers needed? What are the drawbacks of developer testing his own code? Why can’t it be a success? If... more »
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Fooled by Success: The Dangers of Delivering Projects On Time
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Some large IT projects are more successful than they deserve to be. It's time for post-project analysis that will benchmark a projects circumstances... more »
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Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax
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Everyone’s up in arms to embrace distributed version control as the new must-have tool for the developer in the know. Though many people have not yet... more »
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Paying programmers: are bonuses bad and what to do about it?
Marry Poppendieck talked today at Agile 2008 about compensation schemes, attacking the traditional model of bonuses and appraisals. Pointing out that... more »
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Last.fm's Quality Control
The use a very unique 3 bear display for quality of builds!
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Cocoa Tutorial: Windows OOP vs Cocoa MVC
Encapsulate everything! Right? Or not. I was watching the Cocoa developers email list today and saw a post asking for help getting two views to... more »
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Matching desktop fonts and native font rasterization
As a developer of a third-party look-and-feel library, i don’t feel too attached to applications running under the native-looking skins. There have... more »
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(Yet another) Benchmark of the CLR vs the JVM
(Yet another) Benchmark of the CLR vs the JVM to redo the one done by Code eleven @... more »
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Benchmarking the JVM vrs the CLR
I've found that there are lots of flame wars regarding JVM/CLR performance, but very little solid data, so I thought I'd try running a benchmark of my... more »
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Google Code blacklists Mozilla Public License
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google's decision to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting... more »
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Java is not Object Oriented
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The Java programming language is one of the most taught, learned, written about, and programmed in programming languages today. Beginning its life in... more »
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StringBuffer vs. StringBuilder performance comparison
Even if the StringBuilder was around for a while now, many people still use StringBuffer in single threaded applications... So StringBuilder is... more »
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Java Riddle: Static Members in Inner Classes?
Here's something that can annoy the most experienced Java developers and is guaranteed to make people to mumble in job interviews (if that's your... more »
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How NOT to Get Freelance Work
It goes without saying that in the process of doing business, mistakes will be made — especially in the beginning. Small mistakes and stumbles happen,... more »
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Coding Conventions - Prefix For Class Members
Yes, I will use m_ prefix for class members. I DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS. Shut up. Actually, I don’t mind which prefix shall be used but in... more »
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3 Ways of JDK Source Code Attachment in Eclipse
You wanna look at a JVM class while you are coding and you cannot. Here is the legal solution: Attaching source code. ;)
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Swing applications and Mac OS X menu bar
Every once in a while i get questions on using the Mac OS X menu bar for Swing applications running under Substance look-and-feel. This refers to the... more »
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Conditional Operator ( ?: ) vs. Null Coalescing Operator ( ?? ) in C#
This article explains what is the null coalescing operator in C# 2.0 and how to use it to get neater code.
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