Dear Oracle,
I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community.
The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t ...
19 replies - 15266 views - 10/22/10 by Ian Skerrett in News
While many assume the new Apple App Store Guidelines are designed to accommodate Adobe, I think instead that Larry and Oracle got Steve and Apple to lay the...
7 replies - 14521 views - 09/10/10 by Jeff Martin in News
Software Engineering is often regarded as an oxymoron by those of us
with any experience in this industry. Craft? Sure. But Engineering? Not!
Glenn...
0 replies - 6377 views - 09/09/10 by Pete Carapetyan in News
Can we please put the whole term “Best Practices” to rest now? Apparently, according to this link
(forwarded to me by John Dietz, thanks!), the very...
18 replies - 25351 views - 08/10/10 by Ted Neward in News
A common observation of the software development industry is that it's immature. And that's true when compared with more established professions related to...
2 replies - 8319 views - 08/03/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
Over the weekend, there was a tweet announcing that Google was going
to provide “scholarships” to qualified women to attend JSConf.eu. There
was then a...
3 replies - 4691 views - 07/28/10 by Rebecca Murphy in News
When I went to university, most of our programming tests and projects
where evaluated based on our grasp of various algorithms for sorting,
tree traversal,...
11 replies - 9040 views - 07/26/10 by Wille Faler in News
Roy Osherove wrote a post about a month ago describing the different maturity levels of software teams and the strategies that he uses when leading each of...
1 replies - 4549 views - 06/24/10 by Mark Needham in Articles
As students graduate from their software development and computer science courses, what advice some of you in the community would give to them? While it might...
14 replies - 4892 views - 05/20/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so. The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of...
0 replies - 20727 views - 05/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Disclaimer: The experience shared below is purely derived out of a project that was executed following the waterfall model. While most of it applies to other...
2 replies - 5219 views - 05/11/10 by Suresh Murthy in Articles
I have attended the Stanford InfoLab conference, and there are 2 panel
discussions in Cloud computing transaction processing and analytic
processing.The...
2 replies - 8489 views - 05/03/10 by Ricky Ho in News
Yet another stupid newsletter chunk of blather blew by today saying
something like ‘until Android or something else takes hold, you are just
building...
1 replies - 3116 views - 04/21/10 by Rob Williams in News
Recently I've seen some interesting blog posts from attendees of No Fluff Just Stuff conferences (nfjs).
These posts essentially say this: the speakers agree...
1 replies - 3449 views - 04/20/10 by Pratik Patel in Articles
We're not really talking about "Learning
Styles" as much as "Denial Styles". This is a list of responses to
"Astonishment"...
2 replies - 4452 views - 04/14/10 by Steven Lott in News
