Opinion

  • submit to reddit

Selecting your Collections Library

Is this really something you should bother? Is there something fundamentally wrong with java.util.ArrayList and java.util.HashMap? For most of the source code...

1 replies - 5341 views - 01/11/13 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

2013, Year of Evolved Technology

You guess, yet another predictions for this year. 2013. 2012 was a very entertaining year if we talked about mobile. Android and iPhone are always side by...

0 replies - 2496 views - 01/10/13 by Kristiono Setyadi in Articles

Which Freaking Database Should I Use?

Andrew Oliver and Dipti Borkar discuss the NoSQL landscape and cover different types of databases including RDBMS, key value stores, graph databases, columnar...

0 replies - 2863 views - 01/10/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Are We Part of the War Against General Purpose Computing?

I tweeted this on November 26th: funny that there exists a fear that Apple is trying to “kill general computing” even though > 95% of creative...

0 replies - 542 views - 01/10/13 by Jason Whaley in Articles

The Problem of Top-Down Goals

There’s a problem I have with suggestions for goals and purpose in standard management literature. Most writers and consultants assume that it’s a top-down...

0 replies - 1031 views - 01/10/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

No Silver Bullet: Reloaded

I had to read the recent article “Functional Programming Basics”, by Robert Martin, several times to make sure that I wasn’t missing any deeper point,...

0 replies - 2472 views - 01/09/13 by Cedric Beust in Articles

Some Thoughts on Gamification and Software

On the recommendation of J.B. Rainsberger I’ve been reading ‘Reality is Broken‘ – a book which talks about how we can apply some of the...

0 replies - 3724 views - 01/09/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

4 Agile Teams to Avoid

Recently  received a request from  SmartBear  representative to share  one of  Infotoons created by their team with the Agile World...

0 replies - 2109 views - 01/09/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

ROI from the Cloud?

On Quora there was a question about how much CAPEX and OPEX you can save by moving to the Cloud. My short answer is: you might not save any. My longer...

0 replies - 2460 views - 01/08/13 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

Fast Code To Production Cycle Matters: For Pleasure, Productivity, Profit

I spent one afternoon adding a much needed feature to our application. Now I have been waiting for several days for various people to review and approve...

0 replies - 1653 views - 01/08/13 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Agile Practitioners Aren’t Supposed to Use Flamethrowers – Are They?

Have you ever been in a flamethrower war? I sincerely hope you have never been in one like the picture, but if you have been there serving for the US armed...

0 replies - 1688 views - 01/08/13 by Bob Hartman in Articles

Hamcrest Matchers, Guava Predicate and Builder Design Pattern

Often, while coding we have to deal with some POJO objects that have dozens of fields in them. Many times we initialize those classes through a constructor...

0 replies - 1846 views - 01/08/13 by Marcin Grzejszczak in Articles

16 Graph Databases Compared

Objectivity, the company behind InfiniteGraph, recently published a useful comparison of 16 different graph databases.  We recognize that this is a biased...

8 replies - 8884 views - 01/07/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing...

0 replies - 2604 views - 01/07/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

I Made a Lot of Money, and It Made Me Very Happy

The year 2012 was (financially) my best year ever. The sum of revenue on courses, workshops, presentations, royalties, product sales, licenses, and house...

0 replies - 2529 views - 01/07/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles