Go Easy on the Maintenance Programmer
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“Maintenance Programmer“: This common, and underappreciated species of programmer is often heard muttering and cursing under their breath. Sometimes... more »
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Groovy Environment Scripting
Problem: You want to use groovy all the time, but ignorant (but paying) forces keep you writing verbose tedious Java code instead. Solution: Use... more »
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36 steps to success as technical lead
The “tech lead” role can be treacherous at times. While the name implies “leadership“, most of the times it doesn’t come with implied authority like a... more »
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Java Multithreaded Servers - Thread Pooled Server
This is text no. 4 in a series on multithreaded servers in Java. This text describes a thread pooled server design. Earlier designs shown in this... more »
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Multithreaded Server in Java
This is text no. 3 in a series on implementing multithreaded servers in Java. So far the trail discusses a singlethreaded and a simple multithreaded... more »
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Coding Challenges
Are you a fan of coding challenges? I'm certainly not, but Cedric Beust posted a little coding challenge on his blog and I tried to solve it with... more »
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Danger in Design: Why bother with Architecture?
Creativity is a wonderful thing. It’s also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce... more »
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A million lines of Lisp
In pretty much any language, a program with a million lines of code is regarded with considerable respect. So if Lisp can do so much more with so much... more »
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Software Engineering is a Joke.
During my studies at the university we had a course called "Software Engineering". The professor of this course strongly believed in the fact that... more »
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The Agile 800 Pounds Gorilla
I woke up this morning and I was Agile. We are all Agile now. Or we are gonna become Agile. Soon. No doubt about it. It is an order. And orders are... 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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No, inheritance is not the way to achieve code reuse!
Every once in a while I interview a new computer science graduate for a developer position. I prefer to ask the kind of questions that will let me see... more »
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Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming
Abject-oriented programming is a set of practices for encouraging code reuse and making sure programmers are producing code that can be used in... more »
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Java Isn’t The Problem
Quite a few people recently have been blaming Java for part of the downfall in current computer science (CS) graduates. While I don’t particularly... more »
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The Creators of 30 Programming Languages: pages, biographies, blogs, interviews
I think it is very useful for every programmer to understand the history of programming languages and also to understand the reasoning and the way of... more »
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Doing it wrong: getters and setters
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Every getter and setter in your code represents a failure to encapsulate and creates unnecessary coupling. A profusion of getters and setters (also... more »
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Java, Groovy & Scala: side to side 2
Second part of the series, (first part here). Thanks a lot to Daniel Spiewak who took the time to expand the topics presented about Scala. Without... more »
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5 Reasons To Love Django
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Django is one of the best web frameworks out there. Although no project is perfect, any project wanting to best Django has a tough act to follow. ... more »
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What I Hate About Programming
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Programming come across to many as a profession which is boring and geeky. You would be deemed a ‘no-lifer’, as you do nothing in front of the... more »
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Class that any Swing application can't live without
Brief overview of small class that any professionally developed Swing application should use.
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Why You SHOULD Have 100% Code Test Coverage
I recently wrote a post about the level of code coverage that I achieved on a project that I was working on. Then I started seeing articles about how... more »
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Why people like programming in Haskell
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The average salary of Haskell programmers... (both of them!)
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What I wanted to know before I left college: A programmer reflects
I’ve been out of college for 3 years now, and held 3 VERY different programming jobs since graduating with my Bachelor’s Degree. I am hoping to shed... more »
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Top 20 Best Agile Development Books, Ever
The best of the best reading ever
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It’s time to Sharpen your Programming & Design Skills
I am sure many of you have heard the buzzword “Web 2.0″. For many, it may have been from people or design companies that say make sure your website is... more »
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