Bookreview: Clean Code
Is clean code able to teach you software craftmanship? Read my review to find out!
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The secret problem with DSLs
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Growing and designing a language has been shown to be hard. Most people who think they could solve a problem with a DSL are not good language... more »
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Software Entrepreneurship Track - Tracking a Microsoft .NET based startup
This article covers the reality TV show Start-Up Junkies. The show includes lots of .NET goodness and with the power of the internet you get a lot... more »
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How Do You Rate Yourself?
Just yesterday I received the book "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware" by Andy Hunt. I browsed through the TOC, read the... more »
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10 Things To Keep In Mind When Starting Out As A Freelancer
So you’ve realized after many years that your day job is not giving you what you want and you know you have the skills to start earning money on your... more »
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Best Documentation: Prototyping
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After reading an article of Martin Fowler about “Software Architects”: Who Need Architects? , I came to this point: MOST IMPORTANT product of a... more »
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Usability Post: Fighting Perfection
If you’re like me, you probably often find yourself never fully satisfied with your work — always making tweaks and changes, always finding things you... more »
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Case Study: Poor Web Usability and Design
An brief overview of some of the web usability and design issues with Sourceforge.net's landing page..
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Lessons learned from the SCWCD
Just over a week ago, I took the Sun Certified Web Component Developer (Java EE 5) exam. I’m going to share the positives and negatives of the... more »
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The Manga Guide to Databases???
IWho comes up with this? A dummies for dummies book? In The Manga Guide to Databases, Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to simplify her data... more »
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Compilers and More: Parallel Programming Made Easy?
"parallel programming made easy" what a cliché
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Library Oriented Programming
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Way back in 1968, Edsger Dijkstra almost caused a riot at the ACM conference. His audacious crime? "Use of GOTO considered harmful." No one there... more »
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Ant vs Maven, Episode 2 : Gant or Gradle?
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That was June. Now, alas, it isn't so simple: Gant has had a competitor named Gradle. Gradle is more 'heavyweight' than Gant: it uses a full Directed... more »
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7 Reasons Why Google Chrome, the New Google Browser is a Bad Idea
Do you remember the browser wars? No, not Star Wars, the browser wars. In the prehistoric era of the Web we had Netscape Navigators which guided us... more »
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Certification to become braindead?
The following question and solution is from the preparation for the Sun Certfied Enterprise Architect (SCEA) from the Sun Learning Center: You are... more »
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Have I lost my faith?
I was eagerly sucking up the facts the two architects Matthew Wall and Erik Doernenburg are presenting in the podcast. But after about 20 min I was... more »
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A Scala Tutorial with Bill Venners
A short introduction to Scala written after a tutorial with Bill Venners. Scala is kind of a mix of Java and ML - and a really cool language.
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Prioritizing the Product Backlog
Any project plan is a mixture of what the product owner wants and what the team can actually deliver. The product owner naturally wants more than the... more »
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Outsourced Testing – Friend or Foe?
A practical guide on when and how to outsource some of your software testing activities
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My wishlist for GlassFish
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I received a response to my post about how to deploy a seam-gen project to GlassFish from the GlassFish Group Project Manager, John Clingan. He asked... more »
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Douglas Crockford on Web Standards and JavaScript
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I became a bit of a JavaScript fanboy while writing Simply JavaScript last year, so it was especially thrilling to get to sit down with Douglas... more »
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My First Agile Project Part 6: The First End Of Our Project
In this part of the series, I'll talk about what we did when we approached what we thought was going to be the end of the project. As it turned out it... more »
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Things In IT I Am So Tired Off
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After you work in IT organizations enough, eventually you build up a list of things you would really like to never see again. Sadly they never seem to... more »
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What are the Good Qualities of a Developer??
Do you know the good qualities a developer must have?? Then watch this..!
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Is .NET on Linux Finally Ready?
Microsoft's .NET framework on Linux is getting a big boost with the official release Monday of Novell's Mono 2.0. The Mono 2.0 release is Novell's... more »
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