Top 5 Things to Verify About a Shared Host Before Buying
Shared hosts offer great features and prices for both new webmasters just starting out and seasoned webmasters. The best feature is typically the... more »
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Cool Agile Estimation Tool that is Free
If you have read Mike Cohn's book on Agile Estimation, one of the techniques he recommends is something called Planning Poker or Estimation Poker. ... more »
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Microsoft accused of reinventing EJB – ouch!
There is a lot of discussion around Microsoft’s object-relational efforts right now. There are a couple of key issues: Is Microsoft really committed... more »
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Writing a Skype Plugin in C++
Shows how to write a Skype extension using Visual C++, WTL and Boost.
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My Unit Tests Are Purer Than Yours
There is a hot debate on my project about whether or not our JUnit tests are pure unit tests. What the heck does that mean, pure unit tests? Our tests... more »
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Advice to a young programmer
I received a mail from an acquaintance who'd come to the realization that his 13-year-old wanted to be programmer, specifically a games programmer.... more »
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How to define the default value for a property in C#?
When you are creating your form controls and classes in the .NET languages, you maybe want to set the default values to some properties for the... more »
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Soft skills for the programmer
AlvinAshcraft 
via blog.reindel.com
There is a common misconception that all programmers enjoy fascinating solitary pursuits like solving a Rubik’s Cube or reciting Pi beyond one hundred... more »
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Top Ten Reasons You Don't Need a Requirements Document
AlvinAshcraft via dobbscodetalk.com
As I said in Requirements Are Required Reading, the real reason I'm a stickler for requirements documents is that a little extra effort upfront means... more »
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Oh My God, They Fixed the Bug!
Well, last week I turned in my car for its first scheduled maintenance. And after I got it back, while driving home happily in my serviced car, I... more »
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The Cron Commandments
Although it's a rare Unix machine that doesn't run at least a couple of custom cronjobs it's an even more special snowflake that does them properly.... more »
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Building a Software Company: How to sell your software for $20,000
I guess you can either sell $20 software to 10,000 people a year, or $20,000 software to one business a year that buys 10 seats, and either way have a... more »
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CSS Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide
bloid via sitepoint.com
This article is aimed at experienced CSS developers who need a reference for the properties related to positioning in CSS 2. Each section of this... more »
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If Programming Languages Were Characters from Futurama (cartoon)
Too much free time...
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The Invasion of the Female Programmers (You Might Have to Work with One)
So, you’re considering hiring one of these “geekettes,” what should you expect? Well, it will probably be less of an adjustment than you think. Though... more »
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Diary of a Failed Startup: Postmortem
bloid via diffle-history.blogspot.com
So, here's the collection of lessons learned. I'm going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit's Law: "Advice = Limited Life... more »
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5 Common Sense Practices Dev Teams Should AVOID
Treat everyone the same, follow process, create a detailed design, make scope changes difficult and assign tasks round-robin...all seem like good... more »
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Dealing with a mistrustful client
A CIO hires a consultant to examine the feasibility of outsourcing his IT team. When the consultant tries to handle the inevitable bad feelings of the... more »
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The Beekeeper Model for Professional Open Source
The model described here applies to those companies that operate with a model where the company is the main source code contributor. This model is... more »
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Teach Yourself with University CS Resources
Have a look at the Computer Science department websites and you will find that many of them provide access to course materials for anyone to download.... more »
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The Best Developer Cheat Sheets Around
Who doesn’t like a helpful cheat sheet to have around? They save so much time and really help you learn what you are working with in an easy to... more »
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Getting Started as a Web Worker is About Meeting Needs
I am an accidental web worker. I was given the pink slip not so long ago and has since then brought income for the family working from home, cafes,... more »
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How to create web application user interface that looks like Outlook
How many times have you heard form a client that they want "outlook-like" web user interface for their application? Me, probably a hundred of times.... more »
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Why Every Developer’s Next PC Will be a Mac
Every Developer's Next PC will be a Mac. If you’re a developer, your next machine will be a Mac. Here’s why...
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List of Free Online Python Books
List of free and legal Online Python Books and Documentation.
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