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DZone at Agile 2011: A Manifesto Signatories Q&A

Last night at Agile 2011, DZone was in attendance at "The Big Park Bench" Agile Manifesto 10 year anniversary reunion.  At this very special...

0 replies - 7042 views - 08/09/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Solr/Lucene Leader Grant Ingersoll Promoted to 'Chief Scientist' at Lucid Imagination

Grant Ingersoll, who is a major leader in the Apache Lucene, Mahout, and Solr communities and a friend of DZone (see our most recent interview), was bestowed...

0 replies - 3655 views - 08/07/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Translating Code Smells in Server Smells

At xpdays Benelux 2009, I attended an interesting session called 'Developing a Sense of Smells' by Kevin RutherFord and Lindsay McEwan. The exercise we did...

1 replies - 8320 views - 08/04/11 by Patrick Debois in News

The Technology Hype Cycle and why you should bet your Software Career on the Cloud

You'd have to be living under a rock not to be well aware of the hype cycle in technology. Here is a list of hype cycles I've personally lived through and...

0 replies - 4545 views - 07/29/11 by Frank Kelly in Articles

Jerk Programmers Can’t Be Managed Tactically

Interesting post by Scott Berkun : How to deal with jerk programmers which isn’t exactly consistent with my experiences from both sides of the fence. Scott...

3 replies - 8352 views - 07/23/11 by Dhananjay Nene in News

Storytelling in IT - Conversation matters

  Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ." implies that consensus is often the result of a coincidence...

0 replies - 7954 views - 07/20/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Programming: the benefits of taking a break

This post lists several benefits of taking a break during programming. You work smarter, not harder. Once, I worked really hard at a feature. For two...

6 replies - 6941 views - 07/14/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

Are older people better programmers?

Peter Knego states something interesting: “It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.”. He uses reputation and other metrics from...

10 replies - 11805 views - 07/14/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

Using the 3 Rs of Site Search to Improve Search ROI

Oftentimes, we see e-commerce marketers who spend a lot of time on the design of their website, make it look pretty, have rounded corners, and follow all...

0 replies - 4319 views - 07/13/11 by Jason Hull in News

Domain Registrars - Community Recommendations

I'm a domain addict. For years, I've maintained a portfolio of more than one hundred domains, most of which were being reserved for later use. I'm an...

3 replies - 4989 views - 07/12/11 by Chris Shiflett in News

Why You Need to Worry About Changing Other People’s Minds

Yesterday’s rambling post about beliefs may have seemed rather irrelevant to the subject of this blog, but actually there was some meaning to the...

0 replies - 4332 views - 07/07/11 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

Collaboration, Convergence and Adoption

Here we are, half way through 2011, and on track for a banner year in the adoption of enterprise search, text mining/text analytics, and their integration...

0 replies - 3546 views - 07/02/11 by Lynda Moulton in News

DevOps Isn't A Methodology

I was reading Devops is a poorly executed scam and just couldn’t resist a reply. Not because of the entertaining title, but because I both agree and...

2 replies - 6375 views - 06/29/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

State of Development: Annual Address on How We Ship Software

It’s been a while since I talked about how we develop and deploy software at my current job. It’s come a long way from the “Good Ole Days”, when...

0 replies - 4743 views - 06/14/11 by Daniel Ackerson in News

Is cutting-edge technology the right solution for all business problems?

Technology is fast-paced & keeping up your application stack with latest technology stack available is one of the common problems architects face in...

0 replies - 3883 views - 06/05/11 by Ankur Kumar in Articles