Fifty Habits of Highly Successful People
I thought that I might write a quick review of every self-help book ever written all right here in this one little article. Simple enough. I love the... more »
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Why can’t website forms be more intelligent?
Why do website forms force the user to input his/her data in a very specific way? It's easier to code... but with annoying usability.
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The Perfect Job Interview Question
What is the perfect job interview question? And why are some questions *not* the perfect question?
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Modern Java From a Python Perspective
I had a friend visit me today. He's a Java programmer, but he also knows enough Python, Ruby, JavaScript and Scheme to be dangerous. I asked him to... more »
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Corporate IT sucks
An opinionated blog post about why it sucks to work in the IT department of corporate America (gag). I have to agree.
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Mozilla Firefox 3 blows its world record goal out of the water with 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours
The early results are in for Mozilla's attempt to set a world record for most software downloads in 24 hours – as of 11:16 a.m. PDT today, Firefox was... more »
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Programming: The New Literacy
Power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of expressive human-machine interactions.
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We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here
Whenever the regular expression topic comes up, I unashamedly recommend the best tool on the market for parsing and building regular expressions --... more »
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Voluntary Economies
A new way of getting rewarded for the free content you provide on your website. It won't make you rich (at least I don't expect that), but I like the... more »
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Spring: A Quick Journey Through Spring AOP
AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) in Spring. Quite different from the theoretical AOP implementation.
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The concurrency support in Java7 is not enough
I am very interested in how today's programming languages will tackle the many-core hardware trend that is going to continue to grow. In a couple of... more »
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Multithreading in Java 7 - oh my god
bloid 
via compaspascal.blogspot.com
First, the MergeSort example doesn't seem to compile. Correct me, if I'm wrong, I didn't try it. Secondly, they use MergeSort as an example of how to... more »
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Improving Performance via Eager Fetching in Hibernate
bloid via basilv.com
My previous article started discussing Hibernate relationships, focusing on lazy versus non-lazy relationships. This article continues the theme by... more »
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10 ways to keep employees happy (IT employees)
Today I came across a nice little list of items that employers can do to keep their employees happy. While reading through this list, two thoughts... more »
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10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity
A collection of some old methods, revisited. After looking back and trying to figure out what separates one [productive] day from the next... more »
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Retaining Employees: 10 Steps That Will Keep Them Happy
It seems like it is becoming increasingly difficult to retain employees in the IT world these days. I started talking to co-workers and friends about... more »
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Simplicity
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What can we learn about usability…
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Java WTF - Reflection API and Annotations
Taking a first look at java 5 annotations and using reflection results in a noobie mistake. Hopefully, this helps and/or prevents others from running... more »
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Creating a great workplace for developers
Creating an ideal workplace for software developers
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Why Isn't IE8 Passing Acid2?
bloid via blogs.msdn.com
Although we said that IE8 Beta 1 passes the ACID2 test, some of you may be seeing results like the image above; we thought we should explain what’s... more »
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important bug in java not fixed for 10 years
I just had this problem and when i was looking for some way to bypass it i found this bug report. Will sun ever fix it ?
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Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering
When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster, he issued a brilliant report with many insights into the nature of engineering. These apply... more »
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10 things Project Managers wish Developers understood
Well I've been very busy the past few months - most of it adapting to a new role as a Project Manager - technically I'm called a "team lead" or a... more »
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Is Hibernate the best choice?
bloid via java.dzone.com
Is Hibernate the best choice? Or is the technical marketing of other ORM vendors lacking? Recently Jonathan Lehr posed a question on his blog: "Is... more »
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Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)
Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format... more »
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