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They are All Wrong

My wife grew up spending a half of every summer living in Algonquin Park.  My father-in-law was a bush pilot for the Ontario Ministry of Natural...

0 replies - 2811 views - 03/29/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles

Devoxx France 2013 – Day 1

 Rejoice people, it’s March, time for Devoxx France 2013! Here are some notes I took during the event. Java EE 7 hands-on lab by David Delabasse &...

0 replies - 2830 views - 03/28/13 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

8 Myths About Software Modeling Tools and Modeling Languages

These eight myths about modeling tools and modeling languages might sound manifestly ridiculous given what we now know about how to best go about...

3 replies - 3723 views - 03/28/13 by Paul Wells in Articles

Anatomy of Peace – A Model for Communication

The Anatomy of Peace is a deeply insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict with others and reveals a path towards...

0 replies - 1847 views - 03/28/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles

Doctors, Surgery, and Open Source

I visited a friend who lives in a remote, tropical region of the United States. He’s a doctor and a practicing eye surgeon. The island has both the very rich...

0 replies - 2001 views - 03/28/13 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

We Can’t Go on Living this Way

For years I’ve assumed that when Agile principles succeeded at a team level they would naturally spread to other teams in the organisation until...

0 replies - 1027 views - 03/27/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles

Why We Need Lambda Expressions in Java - Part 1

Lambda expressions are coming to Java 8, but apparently they are still encountering some resistance and not all Java developers are convinced of their...

7 replies - 19931 views - 03/27/13 by Mario Fusco in Articles

Dev of the Week: Mikio Braun

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

0 replies - 4199 views - 03/27/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

What Do Programmers Want?

I got an e-mail last week from three students at Halmstad University doing a three month project on what programmers want in a job, and how companies can...

6 replies - 6296 views - 03/27/13 by Henrik Warne in Articles

The Insufficiency of Scrum is a Fallacy

The insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy perpetrated by teams that don’t step up their practices in concert with their planning and don’t really want to...

4 replies - 3158 views - 03/26/13 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles

No Experience Required!

The original study that found huge variations in individual programming productivity was conducted in the late 1960s by Sackman, Erikson, and Grant (1968)....

1 replies - 1890 views - 03/26/13 by Dalip Mahal in Articles

jBPM5 Developer Guide review

I had previously done a review on the first jBPM Developer Guide that Packt offered and was not very impressed. When approached this time I was hesitant to...

0 replies - 1490 views - 03/26/13 by Eric D. Schabell in Articles

Data Analysis Training via Coursera

I recently finished the coursera course "Data Analysis," which immediately followed and somewhat overlapped "Computing for Data Analysis," also from...

1 replies - 3954 views - 03/26/13 by Wayne Adams in Articles

The Tech Interview: One Size Does Not Fit All

The tech interview process is broken.Fundamentally.About a month ago, I wrote about how I've had some terrible interview experiences over the last...

2 replies - 2133 views - 03/26/13 by Tom O'connor in Articles

Interview with Sacha Chua

I spoke with with Sacha Chua last week. We talked about entrepreneurship, Emacs, having eclectic interests, delegation, and more.J: I ran into you by...

0 replies - 592 views - 03/25/13 by John Cook in Articles