Stop Catching Exceptions!
Too many programmers catch exceptions too often, causing both mainline and error handling logic to be complex and error-prone. Although C#, PHP... more »
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Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects
Linus Torvalds explains how he keeps the people and software on-track, with the software quality Linux demands.
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Wearing Out My Delete Key
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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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Open Source Web Services with Ruby
Ruby is a powerful language, I don't think any one will disagree on that. Well, this is about web services with Ruby :-), quite interesting...
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Skip lists are fascinating!
Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black... more »
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Sort XML by attribute in ActionScript 3
There is no way to use E4X as powerful as it is to sort an XML by a particular attribute. It's a shame, but here is a simple function that leverages... more »
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Working from Beijing
In case you haven’t heard, China is on the rise. Regardless of your opinion on the morals of offshoring or China’s human rights record, the fact... more »
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The Death of Google's Patents
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The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps... more »
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Learning To Drive a Stick Shift
They have little or nothing to do with why I say: if you want to be a top-notch programmer, you can no more afford to ignore the C and C++ languages... more »
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The clouds are coming
My notes from CloudCamp conference on cloud computing, held last week in London.
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5 Groovy/Grails recommendations
Douglas Fils in his blogs has put a list of recommendations for Groovy/Grails developers. The original post (5 Groovy / Grails recommendations) can be... more »
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Sorting C# String Array Examples and Benchmark
This article aims to explore some aspects of string array sorting and alphabetization of lists and arrays in C#. It presents some benchmarks and I try... more »
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Opera 9.5 web browser gets a new look
It's been a few years since the Opera web browser's interface got a major overhaul. But now the Opera Desktop Team has posted an updated version of... more »
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Hudson - Tips and Tricks
Hudson is an open source CI server that is by far the easiest one to configure. Second to ease of use is Hudson’s impressive plug-in framework, which... more »
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dotNET WPF Dialogs and DialogResult
In WPF Dialogs are quite different from Windows Forms. The behavior is still the same i.e when you have a Dialog opened (by calling the ShowDialog()... more »
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Wicket: how to write a reusable modal window popup
In the following tutorial I describe a method to write your own application specific reusable modal window popup.
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IT posters to cover your empty walls
If you’re like us and have lots of empty wall space in your office you need to check out this list. We have collected a list of posters that focus on... more »
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Response to “Where did all the PHP programmers go?”
Ok, I’ll bite in response to this “Where did all the PHP programmers go?” blog post.
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Why Microsoft Won't/Can't/Shouldn't Lead
That's a rather sensationalistic headline, I admit, but it's true and here's why... Any sufficiently large service-based organization is a pure... more »
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Code Search Engines you should know
eusing the code/frameworks ( either the in public domain or FOSS licensed code) is pretty common. But searching for useful code online is not very... more »
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Javascript: The Good Parts
When I heard Douglas Crockford, the Yoda of Javascript, was putting out a book, I was eagerly awaiting the book's release date so I could get my hands... more »
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Google Android Tutorial
Google has recently released the Android platform for developing mobile applications. The language used for developing Android programs is Java, but... more »
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JSR 308 Animosity
I’ve come across two blog posts that leave me perplexed: “When Should You Jump? JSR 308. That’s When.”, and “What Hath Java Wrought”. I don’t... more »
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Use Visual Studio's Post-Build Events to Automate Unit Testing
How to use Visual Studio's post-build events to help automate unit testing for your solutions.
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JTable Frozen Columns
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This example demonstrates how to create a user interface that displays a table with "frozen" columns. Frozen means it is not effected by the... more »
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