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Will IT Culture Kill Cloud?

The doctors are circling.   My Gartner colleague Lydia Leong has an interesting Cloud prescription, ‘to become like a cloud provider, fire everyone...

5 replies - 6406 views - 05/30/12 by Chris Haddad in Articles

Why You Should Write a Blog Post Today

Blogging was quite a trend a few years ago, but with the rise of Facebook & Twitter, it’s fallen out of favor with some. Well, I’m here to tell you...

1 replies - 5942 views - 05/30/12 by Ron Gross in Articles

Why Developers Never Use State Machines

A few months ago I saw a great little blog post about state machines on the Shopify blog. The message was that state machines are great and developers should...

5 replies - 10613 views - 05/30/12 by Alan Skorkin in Articles

Who Should Learn to Code?

Codecademy has been gathering a lot of attention in recent times with many people, including Mike Bloomberg, pledging to learn code. The...

1 replies - 2300 views - 05/29/12 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

Programmers are Optimists

Programmers are the most optimistic bunch of people I have ever come across. Ask us how long something will take and chances are our estimates will be way...

1 replies - 6228 views - 05/28/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Learning in a Result Oriented Software Development environment

This article is being written in context of Software development, but should be applicable to all areas wherever there is human involvement. Looking at the...

1 replies - 4250 views - 05/23/12 by Mohamed Sanaulla in Articles

The Developer/Non-Developer Impedance Mismatch

Most software developers have probably heard of and even had experiences with the object-relational impedance mismatch (often addressed with ORM...

1 replies - 2244 views - 05/21/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Search is Not Enough: Using Solr for Analytics

We've got our first video recording out of Lucene Revolution 2012.  This year was even bigger than the previous two, with even more focus on massive data...

1 replies - 4924 views - 05/21/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The Hidden Cost of Outsourcing Software: Software Intelligence

As everyone knows, time in the world of software passes very quickly when compared to other aspects of business.  So, in the last ten years, the way many...

2 replies - 41270 views - 05/12/12 by Chad Davis in Articles

Follow-up Thoughts on Aligning Business & Programmer Goals

My recent entry on Aligning Business & Programmer Goals led to an email conversation that I thought might be worth sharing. From A. Nonymous: I have an...

0 replies - 1945 views - 05/10/12 by Jay Fields in Articles

What the Heck is a Utility Tree?

I recently answered this question in Stackoverflow : What is an utility tree and what is it’s purpose in case of Architecture tradeoff analysis...

0 replies - 4170 views - 05/09/12 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in Articles

Women in IT – Thoughts Triggered by a Female Colleague

This post is coming quite a way after the fact, but I just read this tweet from Pamela Fox and it reminded me that I’ve been meaning to mention this for...

0 replies - 2549 views - 05/09/12 by Steve Chaloner in Articles

Institutional Knowledge is Gold

Nick Cronin wrote a very interesting piece on how technology enhances labor mobility:...

0 replies - 2276 views - 05/04/12 by David Pollak in Articles

Oracle v. Google - Verdict Will Arrive Monday

Starting on Monday, April 30th, the jury in the Oracle v. Google trial began deliberations for a verdict on whether Google infringed on Oracle copyrights...

5 replies - 10052 views - 05/04/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Get Yourself a Reputation at Work

For most of us, as programmers, we are a pretty lucky bunch. We get paid handsomely (or at least nicely) for doing something which we enjoy, will never go...

2 replies - 3959 views - 04/30/12 by Andy Gibson in Articles