Wearing Out My Delete Key
I think every programmer should take every pairing opportunity they get. This article is about a realization I had while pair programming with Daniel... more »
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Why Javascript Creeps Me Out
In any reasonable language, it would first alert "Hello", and then alert "World". But noooo. Javascript's gotta get all fancy and defer execution... more »
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Continuous integration reduces bugs, increases productivity
Development teams can use continuous integration (CI) to find and fix bugs, share knowledge and generally work better together, Agile coach Jared... more »
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A collection of free ExtJS Themes/Skins that works with Gaia
I've wrapped up and tested a handful of ExtJS skins/themes that works with Gaia and added them up for download here with screenshots for those... more »
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Google to Host Most Important Ajax Libraries
Google will host Ajax libraries such as jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTools and dojo.
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Java Is Naturally Untestable...
...and the Java community is collecting hard data to prove it. The Testability Explorer is an open source project that lets you measure the... more »
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Don't Use ExtJS
A former user of ExtJS suggesting not to use ExtJS because of licensing issues
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Writing Goolge App Engine in Java
Explains how is it possible to write Application to Google App Engine in Java Programming Language
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The Narcissism of Small Code Differences
A pithy commentary on the many wars we start over the "one true way" of solving trivial problems.
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Guido open sources Code Review app running on GAPE
rlamarch 
via agiletesting.blogspot.com
Guido van Rossum announced that he open sourced the code for Code Review, a Google AppEngine app he released last week. Code Review is based on... more »
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Kamaelia: The future of Python Frameworks looks promising
rlamarch via devchix.com
Kamaelia is a general purpose Python framework developed by BBC Research. It is what I would consider a second generation framework. It has a mature... more »
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Twitter as a way to generate nice passwords
An interesting idea for password generation.
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Superlanguages: A Revolutionary Approach to Development
Superlanguages offer a new approach to application development. They empower developers, de-skill aspects of the development process, can include all... more »
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Top Ten Reasons to Not Buy Visual Studio 2008
You & I may not agree with Dave Bush but who says .NET developers don't have a sense of humor?
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Database Worst Practices: The Top 5 Mistakes Developers Make and How to Avoid Them
Applications are growing more and more complex, and with that complexity comes the increased risk of error. Healthy databases come grinding to a halt... more »
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We don't write tests. There just isn't time for luxuries.
The testing-slows-us-down argument can be expressed as follows: The time it takes to write the automated tests for a feature is greater than the total... more »
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Who Doesn’t Love Java? (You’d Be Surprised! -and- Part 2 of the Tool/Platform Rants)
When Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz announced that he was changing Sun’s ticker symbol to JAVA, I wasn’t surprised that a lot of folks saw it as a silly move... more »
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Wiki Communication with the User
How can we use wiki technology to create quality communication with the user? The communication between the users and the developer team members is... more »
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4 Signs You Are Fighting Your Version Control Tool
Are your habits and procedures at odds with your version control tool?
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The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design
Join any discussion about unit testing and there's one question that will invariably come up: how do you test private methods? There are a number... more »
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Building Web Applications With Apache Ant
rlamarch via julienlecomte.net
Nice write up by Julien Lecomte on using Ant to automate building your front end web application. Covers automatically concatenating your javascript... more »
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Firebug Tutorial - Logging, Profiling and CommandLine (Part I)
This tab is mainly used for logging. It also can be used as CommandLine window (like immediate window in Microsoft Visual Studio) while you are... more »
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Hate is Good
What do all great programmers have in common? A healthy disdain for mediocrity.
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Sam Ruby: 2to3 - Converting to Python 3.0
As a learning exercise, I tried converting the Universal Feed Parser to Python 3.0. I picked it because it is a relatively self contained code base... more »
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Eclipse Plugin for VMWare Workstation 6 - Remote Debugging
Can you imagine 1 click debugging your code in a virtual machine? You can even revert your virtual machine to a snapshot before the debugging starts.
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