For the purpose of being recession proof, Java programmers should diversify what they spend their time learning. Specifically, Java programmers should add...
4 replies - 4720 views - 12/03/08 by Robert Miller in Articles
Tim Bray has written an insightful piece describing his perscription for a healthier Sun, at the end he suggested others might want to do the same, so here is...
11 replies - 6248 views - 11/26/08 by Ian Skerrett in Articles
Yes, that's a bold statement, but I've waited 13 years to be able to say it. If you've followed my blog or have heard me speak about JavaFX, you know that I...
16 replies - 4628 views - 11/25/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
If you read my blog entry on Language Specialization you might have concluded that I prefer generalists. If, in our industry, generalists were what the...
1 replies - 10603 views - 11/20/08 by Jay Fields in News
I think of bugs as being classified into three fundamental kinds of bugs.Logical: Logical bug is the most common and classical “bug.” This is your...
12 replies - 43488 views - 11/18/08 by Misko Hevery in Articles
Sun Microsystems announced today that it would be laying off 6,000 employees (18% of it’s workforce) in an attempt to better realign itself with “global...
37 replies - 11963 views - 11/15/08 by Riyad Kalla in Articles
I always thought that the GOF Design Patterns book achieved it's objective to make us better C++/Java programmers. It taught us how to design polymorphic class...
5 replies - 7471 views - 11/10/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
I'm not optimistic, but here is a
fact: For more than 20 years (since the 1987 crash) or in some cases
since the usage of computers in companies, the IT...
3 replies - 7446 views - 10/31/08 by Frederic Simon in Articles
Didn't you just totally sell out? -- Obie Fernandez @ Rails Summit Latin AmericaObie and I are good friends. He wasn't trying to insult me. I was talking about...
5 replies - 11383 views - 10/30/08 by Jay Fields in News
I was watching a television show on PBS (viewer-sponsored educational
public broadcasting) about brain health. The speaker was Daniel G.
Amen, author of...
7 replies - 13750 views - 10/28/08 by Jon Davis in News
Nowadays, more than ever, developers need to be productive. Ultra-productive. Organizations need to optimize the added value they get out of their development...
1 replies - 5394 views - 10/22/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles
How much code coverage is enough? Do you consider having 100% code coverage an uphill task? Based on whom you talk to, the reply you get varies considerably. I...
20 replies - 18281 views - 10/20/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles
It's a long wait for Java 7 and there's a lot of speculation about what we can expect once the final JSR is out. I took a look through the what's coming up to...
117 replies - 25121 views - 10/17/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
I remember it well.In 2005, after twelve years as a developer and project lead inside HP IT, I agreed to a promotion that gave me the swanky sounding title of...
0 replies - 18689 views - 10/14/08 by Pete Johnson in Articles
Larry Ellison recently unleashed a tub-thumping tirade against cloud computing covered by Ben Worthen (with further comments from Daya Baran, Giva Perry and...
0 replies - 3357 views - 10/01/08 by Chris Keene in Articles
