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It Pays to Do Community ...

I am incredibly honored to be the recipient of the INETA Community Champion Award – the annual recognition for those who contribute notably to the Microsoft...

0 replies - 696 views - 05/20/13 by Samidip Basu in Articles

The CIO is Driving IT Toward a Cliff

There’s an increasing perception across the enterprise that the role of the CIO as we know it won’t survive the decade. This isn’t anecdotal evidence,...

0 replies - 1906 views - 05/18/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Extreme Syntax

In his book Let Over Lambda, Doug Hoyte saysLisp is the result of taking syntax away, Perl is the result of taking syntax all the way.Lisp practically has...

0 replies - 1849 views - 05/18/13 by John Cook in Articles

Google is Winning the Developers; How Apple Can Win Them Back in an Instant

Google I/O went very well this morning. While I’m predominantly an iOS developer, I also write Android apps and, boy, was I blown away by Google’s...

0 replies - 2978 views - 05/17/13 by John Blanco in Articles

Agile Can Alter the 5 Desirable Properties of Modeling Tools and Techniques

The effects of Agile Programming can alter the five desirable properties of modeling tools and techniques as documented by Pfleeger. The agile methodology...

0 replies - 837 views - 05/17/13 by Todd Merritt in Articles

The Ship Show: Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?

For episode 20, we tackle the topic of tooling proficiency on your release engineering, ops, and development teams, specifically through the lens of version...

0 replies - 2252 views - 05/16/13 by Paul Reed in Articles

The Cloudcast: From DevOps to Private PaaS

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Download the MP3 Date: May 9, 2013 By: Aaron Delp and Brian...

0 replies - 2464 views - 05/11/13 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Rant about Github Pull-Request Workflow Implementation

One of my recent innocent tweet about Gerrit vs Github triggered much more reponses and debate that I expected it to. I realize that it might be...

0 replies - 1989 views - 05/10/13 by Julien Danjou in Articles

How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 1)

I’ve been in the IT industry for almost 8 years working in 4 different companies. During this time I had a chance to work with a couple of dozens of...

4 replies - 12927 views - 05/10/13 by Yuriy Lopotun in Articles

Review: Hadoop Beginner's Guide

Hadoop Beginner's Guide by Garry TurkingtonISBN: 1849517304Hadoop Beginner's Guide is, as the title suggests, a new introductory book to the Hadoop...

0 replies - 4468 views - 05/10/13 by Charles Anderson in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation: Why Preserve An Abomination?

By the early aughts (2001-2005) Visual Basic had gone from state of the art to a legacy application language. Code written in VB was being replaced with...

1 replies - 2352 views - 05/10/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

How I'd Sell Unit Testing

Someone came up to me after my MAX session on web development debugging and asked for some advice on how to 'sell' unit testing to his clients. This was my...

1 replies - 3121 views - 05/09/13 by Raymond Camden in Articles

Why JavaScript Is Doomed

JavaScript is a bubble. Just like the housing bubble. Just like the .COM bubble. And just like any bubble, the JavaScript bubble is bound to pop. Sure,...

25 replies - 12274 views - 05/07/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Android for Enterprise: Does it fit the Bill?

In this presentation from AppForum 2012, Marko Gargenta explores key points of Android and its use as an enterprise tool, including an overview of the stack,...

0 replies - 1514 views - 05/06/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

What the New IT Model Should Be

A New IT model is required to reduce delivery time and accelerate business agility. The New IT Delivery model strives to achieve open collaboration,...

0 replies - 1857 views - 05/03/13 by Chris Haddad in Articles