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Your Glasses Are Prime Real Estate for a Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

I’m closely following the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) world lately, in an attempt to understand the role APIs will play in this expanding tech...

0 replies - 900 views - 04/19/13 by Kin Lane in Articles

Cloud Computing for Mobile Devices - A Short Review

I hear a lot of people talk about cloud computing, mobile revolutions and all of that, but I am left positively agog at just how much of a buzzword...

0 replies - 1737 views - 04/17/13 by Omri Erel in Articles

Search that Sucks

Okay, I know it’s a bit of a provocative (and frivolous) title, but it was either that or “Anti-patterns for Search,” which is somewhat less...

0 replies - 2192 views - 04/17/13 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

App Art

One of my favorite steps in the app development lifecycle is the creation of the artwork. I'm not stellar at creating original artwork, but I definitely...

0 replies - 373 views - 04/17/13 by Jeremy Foster in Articles

Everyone Should Learn To Program, But Not Everyone Should Be A Programmer

The recent free courses from Pluralsight on teaching kids to program really got me thinking about this subject. There seems to be a big backlash in...

1 replies - 3892 views - 04/16/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

SQL? NoSQL? NewSQL? What's a Java Dev to Do?

Here's a one-hour presentation by Chris Richardson, who explores a few emergent database solutions, including VoltDB , MongoDB, and Cassandra. ...

0 replies - 3864 views - 04/15/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

The Problem with Kids Corner in Windows Phone 8

 As a father, I was very happy to see the announcement of Kids Corner as part of Windows Phone 8. “Finally” I thought, “I can now simply hand my...

0 replies - 2345 views - 04/13/13 by Adam Benoit in Articles

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 - 3106 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 - 4690 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 - 1220 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 - 1766 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 - 4525 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 - 2968 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 - 1696 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 - 572 views - 04/05/13 by Chris Haddad in Articles