What scientists call distributed control is usually called empowerment by management consultants. However, some experts don’t like the term. The word seems...
0 replies - 897 views - 04/08/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
I realize that many of you already scowl when you hear anyone talk about
'best practices'. Instead of adding to that discussion, I'd like to
share a short...
0 replies - 877 views - 04/08/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles
I learnt functional programming, but then I decided I liked imperative programming better so I switched back.
— Nobody, ever
Moving from imperative...
1 replies - 7065 views - 04/07/13 by James Roper in Articles
Encapsulation is more than just defining accessor and mutator methods
for a class. It is a broader concept of programming, not necessarily
object-oriented...
0 replies - 2089 views - 04/07/13 by Edwin Dalorzo in Articles
Almost all Eclipse Git repositories are mirrored at GitHub.
The mirrors were initially set up two years ago by the nice folks at
GitHub with relatively...
0 replies - 4099 views - 04/05/13 by Wayne Beaton in Articles
There are DevOps tools and DevOps job ads. People talk about culture and sharing and being nice to each other. Sounds pretty fishy, right? The only thing...
4 replies - 4333 views - 04/05/13 by Matthias Marschall in Articles
The phrase "unit testing" evokes a wide variety of opinions within the
developer community. At this point, most individuals understand the
concept through...
0 replies - 2856 views - 04/05/13 by Zac Gery in Articles
When should you use a database? When will it bite you? When is table storage the solution? In this session, Scott Klein will guide you through the various...
0 replies - 1634 views - 04/05/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles
The post is the third in the series where we publish statistical data about the Java installations. The dataset used originates from the free Plumbr...
0 replies - 1012 views - 04/05/13 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles
Wow, this video of doing Java 8 in IntelliJ
got me all excited. I personally am not often swayed by 'you'll type
less'...
0 replies - 2259 views - 04/04/13 by Rob Williams in Articles
Synopsis: QML looks like a nicer
way to make installable smartphone apps that the Apple anointed XCode
way for iOS, or the classic Java toolchain for...
0 replies - 2339 views - 04/03/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles
At Devoxx last year I attended half a session by Kirk Knoernschild. I
don’t know why I missed half the session, but I fixed that by listening
to the full...
0 replies - 5457 views - 04/03/13 by Jens Schauder in Articles
The cornerstone, I think, of a good April Fools Day joke is plausibility. The more reasonable or possible the topic, the more likely it is that you’ll fool...
0 replies - 2817 views - 04/03/13 by Wayne Beaton in Articles
I think there is great value in reading books on business management.
That is, there is great value in reading them with intent, considering
their points,...
0 replies - 1068 views - 04/02/13 by Michael Norton in Articles
‘Integration’ is the conversation we’re not having.
In Big Data is Distracting Us from the Real Conversation yesterday by TIBCO CTO Matt Quinn, the...
0 replies - 800 views - 04/02/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
