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Ruby – Why U No Have Nested Exceptions?

One of the things we almost always do these days when we write our libraries and apps, is use other libraries. Inevitably something will go wrong with those...

0 replies - 3002 views - 04/12/13 by Alan Skorkin in Articles

Dev of the Week: Paul Hammant

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

0 replies - 4538 views - 04/10/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

API2Cart: The Universal Key to Shopping Carts

Originally authored by Guillame Balas Our API is meant to be huge time saver. It is like a universal key to multiple doors. This is an interview with...

0 replies - 1146 views - 04/09/13 by Steven Willmott in Articles

Amazon, AWS, and the Public Cloud Paradox

CloudVelocity’s Greg Ness laments Amazon’s public cloud myopia, warning that the company’s future success may depend more upon its ability to lead...

0 replies - 1705 views - 04/09/13 by Greg Ness in Articles

Is DevOps Just a Fad?

There are DevOps tools and DevOps job ads. People talk about culture and sharing and being nice to each other. Sounds pretty fishy, right? The only thing...

4 replies - 4362 views - 04/05/13 by Matthias Marschall in Articles

Unit Testing: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

The phrase "unit testing" evokes a wide variety of opinions within the developer community. At this point, most individuals understand the concept through...

0 replies - 2882 views - 04/05/13 by Zac Gery in Articles

Cloud Data for the Everyday Developer

When should you use a database? When will it bite you? When is table storage the solution? In this session, Scott Klein will guide you through the various...

0 replies - 1656 views - 04/05/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

10 Ways to Participate in Open Source

I wonder why more open source users do not actively participate in the open source community and become committers or contributors. After understanding a...

0 replies - 538 views - 04/05/13 by Chris Haddad in Articles

No Seriously. We Love Git... Seriously...

The cornerstone, I think, of a good April Fools Day joke is plausibility. The more reasonable or possible the topic, the more likely it is that you’ll fool...

0 replies - 2833 views - 04/03/13 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Ask DZ: What Do You Like to See in a Software Engineer Job Posting?

I've always been curious to see job descriptions when someone reaches out to me about software engineer (or related) positions. Most of them don't really...

0 replies - 1851 views - 04/02/13 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

Usually When Developers Are Mean, It Is About Power

I’ve been programming professionally since 1988, so I’ve been around quite a few developers in my career. There seems to be a lot of moments lately...

0 replies - 2175 views - 04/01/13 by Kin Lane in Articles

Why You Make Less Money

Have you ever had a conversation with a fellow technologist that you felt wasn’t quite at your skill level, and at some point you discovered that she/he...

0 replies - 3572 views - 04/01/13 by Dave Fecak in Articles

A tale about always-on DRM and web security

  Two days ago I was at a friend’s place and wanted to show her what Diablo 3 looks like. She shows me minecraft, I show her Diablo....

0 replies - 564 views - 03/29/13 by Swizec Teller in Articles

8 Myths About Software Modeling Tools and Modeling Languages

These eight myths about modeling tools and modeling languages might sound manifestly ridiculous given what we now know about how to best go about...

3 replies - 3738 views - 03/28/13 by Paul Wells in Articles

Doctors, Surgery, and Open Source

I visited a friend who lives in a remote, tropical region of the United States. He’s a doctor and a practicing eye surgeon. The island has both the very rich...

0 replies - 2008 views - 03/28/13 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles