Sometimes You Have to Say No to Your Users
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The customer is not always right. The truth is you have to sort out who’s right and who’s wrong for your app,” advises 37signals in their book Getting... more »
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How to become a good developer?
I was asked through this blog how to become a good developers. I think this is the question that many beginners want to ask. For every question there... more »
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Django 1.0 alpha released!
In accordance with the Django 1.0 release roadmap, tonight we've released the first "alpha" testing version of Django 1.0. This release includes all... more »
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OMG - What has Yahoo Done ?
Yacrosoft or Michoo – too Icahnish? When America was once prosperous, not too long ago and most U.S. industries had at least a bright near-term... more »
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Tips to Write a Good Bug Report
Writing is easy, but writing clearly is hard. When it comes to write bug report... well, writing seems to get even harder, as far as the IT... more »
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.Net is like the galaxy, they're both big and getting bigger
Like the galaxy, .Net is big, and its only getting bigger. It stretches as far as the eye can see, or better yet, as far as the mind can think We're... more »
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Why is Web UI Development Slow?
Have you ever been a team member in a web framework or web product development? You may have noticed although UI prototyping is a fast process but UI... more »
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A bit of Lisp
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I’ve been reading this book on Lisp over at MIT press, a little at a time. Yesterday I read something that pushed me a little further along the path... more »
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The Future of ASP.NET AJAX
Bertrand LeRoy recently published a 13 page document on CodePlex, describing the ASP.NET Team’s goals for the future of ASP.NET AJAX. It’s been... more »
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Developers Firefox 3 1 update should be easy: related news
There is a goal to get a world record for downloads of Firefox 3. Spread Firefox is a site dedicated to, well, spreading Firefox. If you're not sure... more »
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BigTable and Why it Changes Everything
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For the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with Google App Engine. In case you’ve been living in a cave for the last month; App Engine is a... more »
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How Can Microsoft Beat Google?
This is an interesting question that almost everyone misinterprets. People assume the question is: (wrong question) "How can Microsoft beat... more »
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1)
The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release... more »
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The Downside to Freelancing
A discussion on the problems encountered in freelancing and how to get around them
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Amaizing WordPress hacks part 2
the followup of the popular "amazing WordPress hacks article" on stylized web with new cool hacks
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Is Object Orientation Working?
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The vast majority of software that people write inside a business talks to a database. Yet object orientated programming does not gel well with... more »
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How to Write Maintainable Code
Yes that simple, but realize that it comes with very large ramifications. It means that you can’t write your code for what’s simplest for you from... more »
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The Web development skills crisis
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The proliferation of Web technologies has been much on my mind lately. Last week, I talked about the continuum of Web development tools, ranging from... more »
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Great Documentation: Ten Tips
This article shows you ten really helpful ways to make your documentation better. Quality documentation is a great way to help software projects in... more »
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Reasons to write bad code.
Why would somebody write bad code ? Ahh!! now we all know the reason.
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3 Ways to run NUnit from Visual Studio
Like it or not, whoever wants to have a stable code, need to write unit tests. There are 2 main unit testing frameworks for .Net Environment: MBUnit... more »
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Reverse autocomplete
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This is a proposal for a small improvement on the autocomplete feature, commonly found in many applications. To my knowledge, it hasn't been described... more »
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Interview Questions Considered Harmful
I've done my good share of interviewing (on both sides of the table) to comment on this. It seems that the culture of interviewing facilitates... more »
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7 Steps to Completing Your Projects on Time
My background is in software development, a field infamous for delivering the vast majority of its projects over budget. This problem is not limited... more »
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The Premises of Agile Programming
Programming promises a lot of things. With its emphasis on face-to-face interactions over documentations, incremental development over Big Upfront... more »
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