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Why I Became a Mentor

This post comes from Margaret Le at the New Relic Blog. When I was in middle school, my family acquired our first personal computer: the IBM...

0 replies - 2927 views - 05/18/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

ZeroMQ in Grizzly

From the OpenStack summit comes a lightning talk presentation on an implementation within the OpenStack IaaS software using the ZeroMQ message broker and...

0 replies - 2355 views - 05/18/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

GitHub as a blogging platform

No, I'm not going to talk about creating some github-backed blogging system. I would like to talk about a blogging style I tried to apply recently. The...

0 replies - 3922 views - 05/17/13 by Alexander Beletsky in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation: Why Preserve the DSL?

A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) can provide some intellectual leverage. We can always write long and convoluted programs in a general-purpose programming...

0 replies - 2459 views - 05/17/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

Taking One for the Team...the Refactoring of Failure

Recently I've been coaching a large organization through an agile transition. I've introduced Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban ways of working to about a dozen teams...

0 replies - 1396 views - 05/16/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

Gradle Goodness: Running a Single Test

We can run test code with Gradle using the test task that is added by the Java plugin. By default all tests found in the project are executed. If we...

0 replies - 4092 views - 05/16/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles

Exercise to understand double.

Many developers fell like double' rounding and representation errors and random errors which are wild and uncontrollable.   This exercise is...

0 replies - 4051 views - 05/16/13 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

The Big List of 256 Programming Languages

Summer typically brings lots of vacation time for people. Instead of sitting around and being lazy, why not take the time to learn a new programming...

6 replies - 14551 views - 05/16/13 by Robert Diana in Articles

Learn A New Programming Language Every Year?

I heard someone mention the other day that they have forgotten more programming languages than most developers have learned and it made me remember all the...

0 replies - 7018 views - 05/16/13 by Tim Murphy in Articles

Estimates in Software Development. New Frontiers.

There’s more and more buzz around estimates and #noestimates in software development. People like to write bold statements and go extreme about things in...

0 replies - 3305 views - 05/16/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles

Caudit : Audit your performance

Performance auditing is an important issue when you deal with an application which requires high performance. As I searched on the web, I could not find a way...

0 replies - 1844 views - 05/16/13 by Yusuf Aytaş in Articles

Objective-C Literals

So you’ve no doubt taken a peek at NDA’d stuff and got the impression there’s some changes to Objective-C coming down the pike, and perhaps you noticed...

0 replies - 757 views - 05/15/13 by Alex Curylo in Articles

Gambling in Software

I want to tell you about a meeting we had a few days ago. It reminded me of “The Jack Story” (which was part of an old stage routine of Danny Thomas many...

0 replies - 1053 views - 05/15/13 by Nadav Azaria in Articles

10 Things Executives Need to Know About Agile

Slide deck with the top 10 things executives need to know about Agile: 10 things executives need to know about agile from Michael Sahota Here’s...

0 replies - 3464 views - 05/15/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles

Lazy sequences implementation for Java 8

 I just published the LazySeq library on GitHub - the result of my Java 8 experiments recently. I hope you will enjoy it. Even if you don't find it very...

2 replies - 6319 views - 05/15/13 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles