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Writing Beautiful Code – Not Just for the Aesthetic Value

 This article was originally published in the 6th edition of TodaySoftMag in Romanian. Reprinted here with the permission of the author /...

1 replies - 2863 views - 11/15/12 by Attila-mihaly Balazs in Articles

Weekly Poll: The CI Landscape

For this week's poll, we're taking a look at continuous integration servers and what we use them for. You'll get to review results instantly after submission....

1 replies - 7714 views - 11/15/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Single Page Web Apps: The Worst of Both Worlds

Source: xkcd Single page web apps are the promised land of modern javascript MVC frameworks like Backbone or Ember. Deliver a dynamic experience right to...

14 replies - 16852 views - 11/15/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Service-Oriented UI

 In large software development projects, service-oriented architecture is very common because it provides a functional interface that can be used by...

1 replies - 4424 views - 11/15/12 by Michael Schnell in Articles

Comments Complement Code

  Today I read this quote: Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, ask yourself, ‘How can I improve the...

1 replies - 3602 views - 11/14/12 by James Roper in Articles

Devoxx 2012 – Day 1

The 2012 Devoxx Conference in Antwerp has begun. Here’s some sum-ups of the sessions I’ve been attending. I’ll try to write one daily (unless I’m...

0 replies - 2424 views - 11/13/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Startup vs. Big Company Mindset

 Paul Graham wrote a great post on startups that is definitely worth reading (in spite of its length). One of the interesting quotes in this text is:...

0 replies - 3045 views - 11/12/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

A Developer's Guide to Starting a New Job

Starting a new job can be an anxious and exhausting process for most individuals. Fold in the high expectations of a technical position and it can be...

0 replies - 6202 views - 11/12/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

Hacktivism is dead. Long live opportunism!

So November 5th was last week and as promised, the global anonymous tirade has descended. The victims so far are both numerous and diverse; PayPal, ImageShack,...

0 replies - 2974 views - 11/11/12 by Troy Hunt in Articles

Back to Basics – Good Comments are Targeted Comments

 I can’t think of a single person who enjoys writing comments in code. I don’t, my friends and colleagues don’t, and I’m pretty sure there...

0 replies - 598 views - 11/11/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles

Why the Bias Against JSF?

In my last post about InfoQ's Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM, I received a thought-provoking comment from henk53: There is one little thing that does...

0 replies - 827 views - 11/11/12 by Matt Raible in Articles

Coffee Talk: Twitter Should Have Monetized Their API

This morning over coffee, Leo (a.k.a. thinkberg) and I discussed this post on the TwentyPeople blog on their problems with the Twitter API. The story is...

0 replies - 3028 views - 11/09/12 by Mikio Braun in Articles

R Without Hadley Wickham

Tim Hopper asked on Twitter today:#rstats programming without @hadleywickham’s libraries is like ________ without _________.Some of the replies...

0 replies - 3009 views - 11/08/12 by John Cook in Articles

CQL: Seismic Shift or Simply a SQL Veneer for Cassandra?

  If you have recently come to Cassandra and you are happily using CQL, this blog post will probably only serve to confuse you.  You may...

0 replies - 2807 views - 11/08/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Weekly Poll: Kirk vs. Picard; Refcardz!

This week, you get not one, but TWO weekly polls. One is displayed as usual, and will give instant results, like normal. It's at the bottom of this page and...

0 replies - 8426 views - 11/08/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles