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JavaOne: User Group Sunday

Well this is exciting!  JavaOne 2011 is the first conference I spoke at, so this the first time I've covered the same conference two years...

0 replies - 1265 views - 10/01/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

Data Structures, Wikileaks, and What Comes Next

Back in late November of 2010, fresh off a series of high-profile leaks, Julian Assange teased another bombshell from Wikileaks, a massive data dump that could...

0 replies - 8671 views - 10/01/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Moving Java Forward into The Future

Well now. I got here, San Francisco, on Friday night in one piece for another JavaOne 2012 conference. Sunday, today, is the first day of the...

0 replies - 2761 views - 10/01/12 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles

JavaOne 2012: Java Strategy Keynote and IBM Keynote

I had a rough start to JavaOne 2012 similar to that at JavaOne 2010. It took 70 minutes for the people handling the check-in to provide me with a...

0 replies - 5395 views - 09/30/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

A Nice Way of Using jOOQ with Spring

A nice way of using jOOQ with Spring was recently discussed on Stack Overflow by Adam...

0 replies - 1792 views - 09/30/12 by Lukas Eder in Articles

Just Another Web Service (JAWS) vs SOA

Over the last few years SOA has been a hot topic lending it to be abused by many that have no understanding of the concept. In my opinion, one of the...

0 replies - 3625 views - 09/29/12 by Todd Merritt in Articles

Mimecast Raises Squillions to Do Something Boring (and Why That’s a Good Thing)

Let’s face it – the technologies that constitute the plumbing underpinning what we do online are boring – but they’re also critical. They may not...

0 replies - 3126 views - 09/28/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Let's Write Better Software

Technology's been a big part of my life ever since I was a kid. If it wasn’t a console it was a computer, and later came the mobile phone. All these...

0 replies - 6362 views - 09/27/12 by Filip Ekberg in Articles

That’s Billion with a B: Is Java Having an "Outlook" Moment?

I’m a broken record, I know, but every month that goes by we get more and more news that suggests that Java developers (and the companies that support...

4 replies - 4543 views - 09/27/12 by Tim O'brien in Articles

The Best Code I Have Ever Written Is The Code I Never Wrote

The best code I have ever written is the code I never wrote. It works exactly as intended. There are no bugs, ever. It doesn’t increase complexity of the...

1 replies - 3046 views - 09/27/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Weekly Poll: Where Do Developers Hang Out Online?

In this day and age, we can't deny that we rely on social networking to let us know what's going on in the world. Given the variety of options available to the...

2 replies - 7826 views - 09/27/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore DevOps

DevOps is a huge movement in IT at the moment. It applies lean practices across an IT organization. While Agile has promoted lean practices in the...

0 replies - 3653 views - 09/27/12 by Jacob Orshalick in Articles

If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So

The other day I came across this awesome post from Peter Sonsini from NEA. I’m actually loathe to critique it – Peter has gone to lengths to present a...

0 replies - 2856 views - 09/26/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Disrupt Tech Recruiting II – So You Want Ari Gold?

Posted on September 26, 2012 After publishing How to Disrupt Technical Recruiting – Hire an Agent and reading the subsequent...

0 replies - 1573 views - 09/26/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Designers vs. Engineers

This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time, but I never quite got around to doing so until now. It’s a frustrating topic that...

3 replies - 7312 views - 09/26/12 by Joshua Gross in Articles