We are relatively familiar with Stallman's views on software freedom.
These views are deeply based on the idea that we can enumerate rights
which...
0 replies - 3476 views - 04/22/13 by Chris Travers in Articles
Thanks to all of the organisers at the ACCU 2013 and to the people I met at the conference in Bristol. I only spent two days over in the West Country, and they...
0 replies - 2368 views - 04/21/13 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles
If you are hesitating about introducing OSGi to your company/department, please consider the following benefits:
1. Access control
OSGi with its class...
0 replies - 2565 views - 04/20/13 by Marton Sigmond in Articles
The speed with which the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were identified was a remarkable sign that we’re in the age of ubiquitous photos and video of the...
0 replies - 2400 views - 04/19/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
In a life cycle of a project, you come across different situations,
you may or you may not overcome these both mentally and physically.
Luckily, we have...
0 replies - 130 views - 04/19/13 by Yusuf Aytaş in Articles
I had recently discovered the JDK 8′s addition of the Optional type. The Optional type is a way to avoid NullPointerException, as API consumers that get...
5 replies - 3992 views - 04/18/13 by Lukas Eder in Articles
One of the most difficult parts of software development is adapting to
change. It's a guarantee that the concepts, ideas, and possibly the
point of the...
3 replies - 4702 views - 04/17/13 by Isaac Taylor in Articles
Okay, I know it’s a bit of a provocative (and frivolous) title, but it was either that or “Anti-patterns for Search,” which is somewhat less...
0 replies - 2131 views - 04/17/13 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
It's a simple question. So why don’t you get more training? Do you feel that you already operate effectively? Is there no more stuff to learn? Do you think...
0 replies - 1333 views - 04/16/13 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles
The recent free courses from Pluralsight on teaching kids to program really got me thinking about this subject.
There seems to be a big backlash in...
1 replies - 3699 views - 04/16/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
The other day I went to an hour's talk on erlang, merely as an observer; I know nothing about erlang except that it does sound interesting and that the syntax...
0 replies - 2533 views - 04/16/13 by Roger Hughes in Articles
Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” The talk title is a reference to...
2 replies - 4051 views - 04/16/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles
These are not my ideas, they were given to me. I wanted to store them in a safe place, which is why they can be found here.
Thank you for your wisdom...
0 replies - 2239 views - 04/15/13 by Jay Fields in Articles
Here's a one-hour presentation by Chris Richardson, who explores a few emergent database solutions, including VoltDB , MongoDB, and Cassandra.
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0 replies - 3600 views - 04/15/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles
Java is a very backwards-compatible language. Very as in very very very. It is so backwards compatible, we still have tons of deprecated code that was...
4 replies - 2505 views - 04/15/13 by Lukas Eder in Articles
