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Thoughts from VMworld 2012 (San Francisco)

A few weeks ago, I wrote my pre-show thoughts about VMworld 2012. Much of it was focused on the need for VMware to diversify their technology and business...

0 replies - 4083 views - 09/04/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

8 Things I Like About Datomic

Yesterday evening, the 9th BigData.be MeetUp was organised at the offices of NGDATA in Ghent. With 45 people showing up, this was our best attended MeetUp till...

2 replies - 3805 views - 09/04/12 by Davy Suvee in Articles

My Thoughts on Node.js and Express

A while back I posted about how I had begun to see Node in a new light. (Do folks refer to it as "just" Node or do you always include the JS at...

0 replies - 9595 views - 09/04/12 by Raymond Camden in Articles

Reading Code

Writing good code is all about making it fit for human consumption. Any idiot can write code a computer can understand, it takes...

0 replies - 5417 views - 09/03/12 by David Green in Articles

Big Data Apps and Big Data PaaS

Enterprises no longer have a lack of data. Data can be obtained from everywhere. The hard part is to convert data into valuable information that can...

0 replies - 2753 views - 09/02/12 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

Missing OO and FP bridge in Scala

Scala blends functional and object-oriented programming in many nice ways. You can use both FP an OO-like...

1 replies - 2517 views - 09/02/12 by Adam Warski in Articles

Java Enums: You have Grace, Elegance and Power and This is What I Love

While Java 8 is coming, are you sure you know well the enums that were introduced in Java 5? Java enums are still underestimated, and it’s a pity since...

0 replies - 6224 views - 09/02/12 by cyrille martraire in Articles

How Expensive is a "Waterfall" Project Plan?

It's impossible to step into the same river twice; other waters are flowing toward the sea.  It's impossible to do "head-to-head" project...

0 replies - 2381 views - 08/31/12 by Steven Lott in Articles

An Emerging UI Pattern - Quick Return

Quick Return UI design pattern (named by Roman Nurik on G+) is a screen real estate saving design pattern that still allows users to access important off...

0 replies - 3432 views - 08/31/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Realigning Java EE 7 - A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

The news came out yesterday. Java EE 7 is going to be realigned and the PaaS enablement and multi-tenancy support will be moved to Java EE 8. While the...

2 replies - 3731 views - 08/31/12 by Markus Eisele in Articles

Poll: Are We Polyglot Programmers?

An excellent blogger, Dave Fecak (who recently became an MVB) gave me a good idea when he wrote his controversial post: Advice From A JUG Leader – Learn A...

2 replies - 10915 views - 08/30/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

When You Hit the Glass Ceiling of Coding Productivity . . .

As a budding programmer, I could spend an hour programming and within that hour I learned so much the next hour was like three sets of the first...

0 replies - 6610 views - 08/30/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Innovation, Arduino and "Tinkering"

Many of my customers (mostly super-large IT shops) wouldn't recognize innovative behavior.  Large organizations tend to punish defectors (folks...

1 replies - 3284 views - 08/30/12 by Steven Lott in Articles

The War on Best Practices

Every now and then in this profession it is necessary to take a step back, reassess the situation and realise that what you are doing, what you...

2 replies - 5011 views - 08/29/12 by Dan Dyer in Articles

Developer Interviews – Code First Approach

One of challenges that I’ve seen people facing while executing projects is that they often end up having people in their team  (many a times screened by...

10 replies - 5674 views - 08/28/12 by Punit Ganshani in Articles