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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
