I've been challenged to do a session at a very large conference around
women in programming. Which leads to two reactions from me 1) wow, what
an...
0 replies - 18799 views - 06/26/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles
In my last blog I created a simple Twitter application that uses the
Spring Social Twitter module to access a user’s public time line data.
As I...
0 replies - 2148 views - 06/25/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles
Continuing the theme of Things I Have Heard I Don't Think I Agree With.
To developers technologies are everything
I can't remember the context of...
2 replies - 2633 views - 06/25/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles
One thing that gets lost in the general Big Data hubbub is the critical
question of apps. Big Data can provide stunning business insights but
unless those...
0 replies - 3987 views - 06/25/12 by Chris Keene in Articles
We’ve all met them. The programmers that can’t program.
They can hardly write anything that compiles on their own. Producing
quality quality code is...
4 replies - 24544 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles
What follows is my experience with Java, PHP and Ruby. I mainly use PHP
as a dynamic language that supports duck typing but also the definition
of...
0 replies - 6355 views - 06/25/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Analysis of unstructured data
is the hot topic these days – organizations are lured by the promise of
deriving huge incremental value by gaining insights...
0 replies - 5004 views - 06/23/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles
This is a short excerpt from Chapter 2 (Performance Measurement) of Pro .NET Performance, scheduled to appear in August 2012. I might be publishing a few more...
2 replies - 2701 views - 06/22/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles
It's Friday, so why not take 2 minutes out of your day for this fun song, with the added advantage of learning about seven of the most popular databases...
0 replies - 3757 views - 06/22/12 by James Sugrue in Articles
How could one tell if an IT organisation is working well? A simple
measure could be to check the delivered business functionalities versus
the requested...
0 replies - 1684 views - 06/21/12 by Marco Tedone in Articles
In April 2011, when Amazon’s cloud s east region failed. I posted the first chapter of theAmazon Cloud Outage Conspiracy – it was already very clear that...
0 replies - 3723 views - 06/21/12 by Ofir Nachmani in Articles
We often talk about tension caused competing bonus / success
structures for development and operations teams in the build and release
process. At Gartner...
0 replies - 3680 views - 06/20/12 by Eric Minick in Articles
I was recently chatting to some friends about all the apprenticeship
experiments going on and (name withheld to protect the innocent)...
0 replies - 17485 views - 06/20/12 by Jay Fields in Articles
At the end of the Eclipse Community Survey
we ask for general comments and suggestions about Eclipse and the
Eclipse Foundation. I decided to respond and...
0 replies - 2843 views - 06/20/12 by Ian Skerrett in Articles
Data is valuable. Data is plentiful. Data is complex. Data is in
flux. Data is fast moving. Capturing and managing data is...
0 replies - 3764 views - 06/20/12 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles
