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Ecosystems Are Overrated

When Java first came out in the 1990'ies, features such as garbage collection and "write-once-deploy-anywhere" where killer features for...

3 replies - 1658 views - 10/11/12 by Wille Faler in Articles

Towards Better Refactoring Support in IDEs for Functional Programming

A couple of days back I was thinking how we could improve the state of IDEs and let them give rich feedbacks to users focusing on code...

0 replies - 1579 views - 10/11/12 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles

Lines of Code is a Bad Metric, Either Way

The Dropbox team had a post explaining their decision to use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript and, in particular, re-writing their existing codebase in...

0 replies - 2498 views - 10/11/12 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

Vampires of the Cloud

MacObserver ran an hilarious article about how the iPad Mini is competitors' worst nightmare. I particularly love how the dude chose to open with AT&T‘s...

0 replies - 6216 views - 10/11/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Developer's Creed

So borrowing an idea from the NCO Creed, I thought I do one for software developers: Discipline will be my watchword, the software I create will...

0 replies - 2748 views - 10/10/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

What OAuth Lacks: Resource Owner Initiated OAuth Delegation

Irrespective of all the criticism against OAuth 2.0 - it has produced a very powerful, highly extensible authorization framework. The use cases covered in...

0 replies - 3453 views - 10/10/12 by Prabath Siriwardena in Articles

The Benefits of Cynicism in Coding

We had no reasons to be anxious about this component. It has been running for about an year now. It used to handle around 1000 messages per day and email...

1 replies - 3291 views - 10/10/12 by Partha Bhattacharjee in Articles

Why Java EE Lost and Spring Won

Curator's note: Andy is the CEO of OSI (Open Software Integrators). He's a forward-thinker and exceptional blogger. He will be writing regularly on DZone, so I...

40 replies - 31717 views - 10/10/12 by Andrew C. Oliver in Articles

JavaOne: The Summary

So, JavaOne. Taylor Street Cafe I'm going to be controversial.  I think this was my favourite conference of this year.  I know...

0 replies - 2637 views - 10/09/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

JavaOne 2012: Observations and Impressions

I am starting this particular blog post as I sit the the San Francisco International Airport waiting to board an airplane to head home after another...

0 replies - 3245 views - 10/09/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

The Appacino: How Starbucks Evolves App-Based Payment

It’s been almost two years since Starbucks made it easier for  their massively caffeine addicted customer base to never have to take their wallets/purses...

0 replies - 3718 views - 10/09/12 by Shawn Deena in Articles

Things Great Engineers (almost) Never Say

My job as a recruiter of software engineers and my 12 years as a user group leader have provided me the opportunity to speak with many talented...

12 replies - 50547 views - 10/09/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Common Rules in Programming

Writing code has never been easy. Well, let me re-phrase: Writing readable code has never been easy. Many programmers work on their code alone....

1 replies - 4830 views - 10/08/12 by Kristiono Setyadi in Articles

Fast Feedback

Writing good software is all about getting feedback, quickly. Does it compile? Does it function? Does it build? Does it deploy? Does...

0 replies - 1559 views - 10/08/12 by David Green in Articles

On Open Source Cloud Adoption

Last week Lydia Leong from Gartner published an analyst report with some opinions on Open Stack. I’ve been critical in the past about traditional analyst...

0 replies - 2403 views - 10/08/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles