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Why You Should Leave Microsoft - Or Any Other Big Company

I read Bertrand’s post on “Tales from the Evil Empire” about him leaving Microsoft this morning. Congratulations. We have never met, but your...

3 replies - 8019 views - 03/10/12 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

A Tale of Two Cultures

Today I found myself thinking again of what I see as two distinct...

10 replies - 3166 views - 03/09/12 by James Carr in Articles

Governance Gone Wild

I've written in the past about change control processes and how they relate to agility. Taking things to the next level, there's a bigger issue that...

0 replies - 2205 views - 03/08/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

Aggressive control freaks make great programmers

After reading Give it five minutes I saw an interesting pattern. Of the folks I know, the good/great programmers are all pretty aggressive. In addition...

0 replies - 4099 views - 03/03/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

Aligning Business & Programmer Goals

A theme emerged, last week at speakerconf, around the idea that programmers and businesses still don't seem to be on the same page. I'm not sure if it came...

1 replies - 3233 views - 03/03/12 by Jay Fields in Articles

Just because it isn't new doesn't mean it's old

Ted Neward wrote a piece in which he complains about not seeing anything new and exciting in the IT industry and ends with a...

0 replies - 2417 views - 03/01/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles

Job vs. Dream Job: Career Fair Advice

I went to a career fair at Big Ivy University recently, and talked to fifty or so computer science undergrads who were looking for internships or...

0 replies - 6783 views - 02/22/12 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles

All software is a commodity

If you have the right people.... I was looking at a small company's recent 10-Q filing and was struck that 1/2 of their total assets were in their...

1 replies - 2268 views - 01/26/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

Application footprint

I recently came across Carl Erickson’s ‘small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams‘ blog post which reminded me of something which...

0 replies - 2267 views - 01/26/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

DZone Top Article of 2011: Ask DZ - What's the best programming advice you've ever got?

For example, Travis Griggs' blog post explains some of the best OOP advice he ever received.What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you, and why it...

23 replies - 22343 views - 01/18/12 by John Esposito in Articles

Relaxed JSON parsing

JSON is a good alternative when you need a lightweight format to specify structured data. But sometimes (for example when you want the user to specify JSON...

0 replies - 3217 views - 01/18/12 by Attila-mihaly Balazs in Articles

Programmers are born not made

Programmers are a special breed, good programmers especially – our craft is more an art than we like to admit when trying to wrestle it into a Hard...

0 replies - 4269 views - 01/18/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

How to ask intelligent questions

Smart technical people (aka Hackers) have likely dedicated thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of hours of their lives learning,...

0 replies - 3326 views - 01/17/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

How Many Hours Can a Programmer Program?

I am a little late to this party where Michael Arrington says that startups mean working hard and sleeping under your desk. But I will add a few words. I...

7 replies - 12504 views - 01/17/12 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

Moving Towards a Simpler Software

The web has made things simpler, and as our lives revolve more and more around it, the way we interact with it has become simpler, too.  As James Governor...

0 replies - 3514 views - 01/17/12 by Chris Smith in Articles