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The Command Design Pattern, Not Completely in Fashion

In my previous post about the command pattern, I gushed about how much I loved it. That doesn’t mean that the command pattern as originally envisioned is...

1 replies - 4013 views - 12/04/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Reaching The Internet Event Horizon

For the last 15 odd years we have continually expanded the amount of information available at our finger tips year on year exponentially. Thank you...

0 replies - 2989 views - 12/04/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

Microsoft at the End of the World: 2012 in Review

The end of the world must be coming. Not because the Mayan calendar says so, but because Microsoft is innovating more than Apple. It has been a crazy year,...

0 replies - 7753 views - 12/04/12 by Tim Murphy in Articles

I'm Going to Make a Lot of People Mad: Criticizing the Uncriticizable

There are some technologies that have such strong "street cred", they are effectively untouchable. Anyone who dares imply that they are deficient in any way is...

31 replies - 28980 views - 12/03/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles

The Cost and Value of Knowledge

I was a student in France when I discovered the Internet and the World Wide Web. At that time, I didn’t realize the value of the thing, even though I...

0 replies - 1914 views - 12/02/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Why Great Teams Build Great Products

The software development process can be a complicated tango of deadlines, constraints, and expectations. Knowing this, companies must have an increased...

0 replies - 5223 views - 12/02/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

Looking Inside the Black Box

I recently came across a really interesting post about black box abstraction by Angeleah where she talks about developers desire to know how things work...

0 replies - 1693 views - 12/01/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Pair Programming Takes Double Effort

Pair programming is very known as efficient technique of writing code. Originally appeared as one of key XP practices, it got a lot of traction. You can...

1 replies - 2933 views - 12/01/12 by Alexander Beletsky in Articles

The Cloudcast, Ep. 65: Cloud Cost Concerns

Download the MP3Date: November 28, 2012By: Aaron Delp and Brian GracelyDescription: Mini-cast from AWS re:Invent: Aaron speaks with Mat Ellis...

0 replies - 1815 views - 12/01/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Heroku Joins Cloud Foundry for Multi-PaaS Support from Appsecute

Let’s settle two things from the outset – firstly, PaaS is (I believe) the future of cloud services and will be the area for growth in the coming years....

0 replies - 2630 views - 11/30/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Devoxx Impressions

It’s already a week ago that I was at Devoxx for the first time. It’s time to have a quick glance at all the technical impressions I took...

0 replies - 3013 views - 11/30/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles

Weekly Poll: Music for Developers

Here at DZone Headquarters, nearly every office has music playing all day, every day. The sales team (for obvious reasons) doesn't always follow this...

0 replies - 6617 views - 11/30/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Micro Services: The Curse of Code Duplication

A common approach we’ve been taking on some of the applications I’ve worked on recently is to decompose the system we’re building into smaller micro...

0 replies - 4006 views - 11/29/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

The Well-Grounded Java Developer Book Review

 After finishing Core HTML5 Canvas, I dived into the next book on my list: The Well-Grounded Java Developer by Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg. I've known...

0 replies - 5063 views - 11/29/12 by Matt Raible in Articles

A New Bill of Rights for the Enterprise Cloud Buyer

As we approach the close of the fourth quarter, many of you will be evaluating the investments your company has made in the way of cloud computing and will...

0 replies - 2163 views - 11/29/12 by Eric Berg in Articles