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Bad Advice: “Stop Working So Hard”

I’ve been seeing quite a few posts on Hacker News lately about why you should not work too hard and even saying you should work less than 35 hours a...

3 replies - 2804 views - 05/16/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Internet Detox: Going Offline for a Week

A week I spent without Internet. I didn’t even bring a smart phone. It was a personal experiment and a great experience. This post contains no code...

0 replies - 2726 views - 05/15/13 by Anders Abel in Articles

Apologetic Agile Development

Having lived through numerous attempts to build software embracing the concepts behind the agile manifesto, I feel there are three large categories folks fall...

0 replies - 3805 views - 05/14/13 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

Subtle Changes in Java 8: Repeatable Annotations

Apart from the “big stuff”, related to extension methods, lambda, and the streams API, Java 8 also has a couple of minor, very subtle...

0 replies - 5428 views - 05/14/13 by Lukas Eder in Articles

The Next Gutenberg Moment is Now

 This article shall be considered as my week ramblings, nothing more. Some time ago, I stumbled upon the term “Gutenberg moment” (and I’m very...

0 replies - 3322 views - 05/12/13 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Why the Recruiter Didn’t Call You Back

Technology pros often express their venom for both the overly-aggressive spamming recruiter and the recruiter that doesn’t call back.  However, the...

0 replies - 2233 views - 05/11/13 by Dave Fecak 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 - 2515 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 - 2032 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 - 13988 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 - 4593 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 - 2387 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 - 3175 views - 05/09/13 by Raymond Camden in Articles

A jQuery Inspired Server Side View Model for Java

In HTML applications, jQuery has changed the way people thing about view rendering. Instead of an input or a text field in the view pulling data into it, the...

3 replies - 1860 views - 05/09/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

BMW and UX: Same But Better

A couple of years ago I bought BMW 530 E39. Not that I’d been into BMWs all that much, but I just stumbled upon a good deal to replace my old car, and I went...

0 replies - 2089 views - 05/08/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles

Is it Better to use Immutable or Mutable Values in Multi-threaded Systems

@martypitt asked an interesting question which I think deserved it's own post.Most of the articles I've read of yours focus on concurrency and/or high...

0 replies - 2016 views - 05/08/13 by Peter Lawrey in Articles