Opinion

  • submit to reddit

What's Your Overhead?

“What’s your overhead?”. We often hear this question when we talk about Plumbr. Wikipedia describes overhead as “any combination of excess or...

0 replies - 2396 views - 09/19/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

Resign Patterns – Eliminate Them With Agile practices and Quality Metrics

This blog post is inspired by the article titled Resign Patterns by Michael Duell. I’ve included all the original text from the above article but for...

0 replies - 3407 views - 09/18/12 by Patroklos Papapetrou in Articles

How To Disrupt Technical Recruiting – Hire an Agent

A recent anti-recruiter rant posted to a news group and a subsequent commentary on HackerNews got me thinking about the many ways that tech recruiting and...

0 replies - 2000 views - 09/18/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Fluent Interfaces: Don't Chain for the Sake of Chaining

One of the goals of FEST-Assert 2.0 is to learn from the mistakes we made in the 1.x releases, even if that means not being backwards-compatible. Not fully...

4 replies - 3221 views - 09/18/12 by Alex Ruiz in Articles

Why we used Clojure and ClojureScript for Flurfunk

Why have you decided to use Clojure and are you still happy with your choice? This question has been asked more than once now,...

0 replies - 3461 views - 09/17/12 by Felix Dahlke in Articles

Algorithm Books Reviews

To be sure to be well prepared for an interview, I decided to read several Algorithms book. I also chosen books in order to have information about data...

1 replies - 6867 views - 09/17/12 by Baptiste Wicht in Articles

BAM, SOA & Big Data

Leveraging Big Data has become a commodity for most IT departments. It’s like the mobile phone. You can’t remember the times when you couldn’t just...

0 replies - 2792 views - 09/17/12 by Tharindu Mathew in Articles

ClojureScript: 4 Things That Might Worry You, but Shouldn't

When I first considered taking ClojureScript for a spin, there were several things that gave me pause: "What's the debugging experience...

0 replies - 3085 views - 09/17/12 by Jason Rudolph in Articles

Ask DZ: What You Wish You Had Known 2 Years Ago

At TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, New Relic asked developers what they wished they'd known two years ago. Answers included:"It's easier than you...

8 replies - 4453 views - 09/17/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Allowing JUnit Tests to Pass Test Case on Failures

Why create a mechanism to expect a test failure? There comes a time when one would want and expect a JUnit @Test case fail. Though this is pretty rare, it...

0 replies - 3188 views - 09/16/12 by Mike Ensor in Articles

It's DevOps, or it's the Wrong Conversation

As I was watching this thread develop, with various comments from people that live and breathe IT, one thing kept coming to mind. IT people often try...

0 replies - 3849 views - 09/15/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

5 Tips to Ease Reusable Asset Integration

Resuable software assets need to be created and evolved with two perspectives – functional value and ease of integration. A library that...

0 replies - 2304 views - 09/14/12 by Vijay Narayanan in Articles

The Philosophy of it All

I am a person who is all about the philosophy of it...

0 replies - 1936 views - 09/14/12 by Mahdi Yusuf in Articles

You’re a Top Developer!

I know that you are a top rated developer. In fact I know that everyone reading this is ranking among the top 10% of all developers. How do I know? Because...

5 replies - 13062 views - 09/14/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

Factories: Good and Not So Good Reasons to Use One

I remember the time when I first started to extensively used Factories in my code. And boy is it embarrassing to even think...

3 replies - 5873 views - 09/13/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles