Last year, I conducted a survey to gauge industry acceptance, adoption, and understanding of OSGi. I posted a summary of the results on my site with more...
1 replies - 1571 views - 10/15/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
Many people attend technical training classes each year, learning
everything from Microsoft Word to the latest, greatest programming
language. These courses...
0 replies - 1331 views - 09/16/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles
def Initial Development Time:
In software development projects, initial development time (IDT) is the
length of time it takes from the project's first line of...
1 replies - 1748 views - 09/11/09 by Jay Fields in Articles
I have a personal hatred for weekend conferences*. To me, a weekend
conference ensures that I'll be "working" for 12 straight days. I understand that...
7 replies - 5241 views - 08/21/09 by Jay Fields in Articles
One of the hardest questions to answer in our industry surrounds
the issue of what qualities differentiate a 'good' programmer from the
rest? I just read Eran...
10 replies - 7525 views - 07/24/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
There’s been a few reactions lately about the Tom DeMarco article.
To be honest with you, I didn’t know the guy but apparently he’s quite
respected. And...
4 replies - 3092 views - 07/23/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in Articles
Aside from the fact that Oracle's Java Problem
contains all kinds of factual and other errors (see the comments on the
post) this sentence caught my eye in...
8 replies - 4528 views - 05/01/09 by Scott Leberknight in News
In this virtual panel, recorded at the recent JBoss Virtual Experience,
software engineers from the JBoss division at Red Hat address several
key questions...
6 replies - 5221 views - 04/15/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
One of those interesting facts about evolution is that most of the
species that ever existed are now extinct. There are good reasons for
this. The average life...
11 replies - 4207 views - 04/15/09 by olabini in Articles
If you are as much of a fan of the book “The Pragmatic Programmer” as I am, then you might remember the phase: “Select” Isn’t Broken
9 replies - 4204 views - 03/27/09 by justin_etheredge in News
Recently, Microsoft unveiled their Elevate America initiative. The idea behind the site is simple - provide resources to help workers in the US gain technical...
5 replies - 3625 views - 02/26/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
It's a common tale: Some business need arises for capability your IT
department doesn't currently offer but there are multiple commercial
alternatives...
5 replies - 2617 views - 02/10/09 by nerdguru in Articles
I'm sure that most Java developers have caught wind of the news that Sun will be cutting 1,300 jobs. The unexpected part of the story however is that this...
33 replies - 4869 views - 01/26/09 by James Sugrue in News
In Economics theory, you learn about capital investment. This is investing in more modern infrastructure, more productive factories or tools, and so forth,...
2 replies - 2790 views - 01/22/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles
We have all gone back and looked at code we wrote in the past and
thought "Wow, this is ugly.", or "wtf was I thinking?", or even...
12 replies - 11981 views - 01/16/09 by Mike Bernat in News
