Time to say goodbye to Windows XP
I'm at Microsoft's MIX conference in Las Vegas, where the big news has been the unveiling of the Windows Phone 7 development platform,... more »
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About the 80 million dollars Blue (#0044cc)
Discussion about the Bing mysterious color for links and importance of usability and value of good design
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Managers Are Clueless
So you’re a manager. You even think you’re pretty damn good manager. Fine for me. Do you remember Pointy-Haired Boss? Yes, that clueless... more »
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Programming Gets Harder as You Learn
As most programmers know the more you learn the harder things get, I’m finding this to be true. The more I learn about how I “should”... more »
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Making a startup with Django and 50$
It’s quite amazing, in a day a hackurls.com got 15000 visits, thank you DZone
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Code Generation and Vendor Lock-In
When you build a code generator you have two basic options 1) Generate code to be read, complemented and possibly modified by humans - 2)... more »
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What parallel programmers really really want...
We asked an open forum of developers and project managers in Paris what they considered to be the chief obstacles that were slowing down... more »
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The 4 Types of Emails Programmers Receive
Short article categorizing the different types of emails the typical programmer receives.
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Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers
Programmers all have their pet peeves. Whether it’s scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, we’ve come to accept that there... more »
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OSGi, and How It Got That Way
Probably the most common complaint against OSGi is that it is too complex. For example, quoting Reza Rahman of Caucho: Honestly, this... more »
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The Cost of "Free"
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"You never get anything for free." I remember my parents telling me this when I was a kid – and it's proven true time and time again.... more »
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Why doesn’t (JPA, JMA, JTA, EJB, JSF, CDI) work? JEE is “Too Complicated”
First, before reading this – you’re going to be upset with me. You’re going to disagree. I know — it’s OK. You may not even believe me,... more »
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Minimalism, The New Innovative
There’s so much room for observations and analogies in the evolution of production trends. Analogies are not merely a candy for the... more »
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CPUs speed and technology innovations
The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. This empirical... more »
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Don't Wait
When are you going to take the steps to get involved in the local community? Who do you think does the resume filtering? Quite often,... more »
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Why Google's Nexus One hasn't flopped (yet)
The tech industry wants Google to deliver an iPhone "killer," and continues to be disappointed that Google doesn't share that interest.
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Why some smart people don’t take action?
Why some smart people don’t take action? I mean “action” that will lift them to a whole new level in life and in business. This is... more »
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How I Review Code
Just a quick post about how I, personally, review code. 7 things I do.
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Clojure IDEs — The Grand Tour
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This post serves as an overview for the available IDEs for Clojure development at present. I won’t go into incredible detail with all of... more »
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Developing new startup ideas
If you want to start a company and are working on new ideas, here’s how I’ve always done it and how I recommend you do it. Be the... more »
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12 Reasons To Be Learning Graph Theory
Throughout our schooling we always encounter some topics that we feel very strongly about, either because of how fascinating they are or... more »
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File System Storage and Servlets
One of the blessings of the JVM is that there are many “pure” databases available for it; Sesame (RDF) and Apache Derby (relational) come... more »
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The Future of Java Revisited
In 2006, I wrote a three-part article on the future of Java (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) in which I discussed open source, Java's use in... more »
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The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist
I have often used those three terms almost interchangeably, yes, even computer scientist. After all, most of us have a degree in computer... more »
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Glassfish v3 will never support clustering
Glassfish will be for productive and agile development. Weblogic is the availabillity and scalability solution. Therefore the v2 was... more »
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