A few weeks ago, we asked which programming language you'd use if Java weren't an option. JVM languages, especially Scala and Groovy, were the overwhelming...
6 replies - 9196 views - 11/02/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
We need to understand what happens to code over time and why, and
what a healthy, long-lived code base looks like. What architectural
decisions have the...
1 replies - 9860 views - 10/15/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
The wife is interested in learning programming so she has been doing the Code Academy
JavaScript course. It’s incredible to observe a person...
0 replies - 1078 views - 09/19/12 by Rob Galanakis in Articles
Since we already know how to represent graphs,
we can go further for some very simple approaches of walking through
them. Passing by all the vertices of a...
2 replies - 9758 views - 09/10/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
An article popped up today claiming that Facebook is investigating compiling PHP to run on the JVM. Until now, Facebook has been using a PHP-to-C++ cross...
1 replies - 8925 views - 08/13/12 by James Sugrue in Articles
Note: I've put a lot of effort into Neo4jPHP
since this post was written. It's pretty full-featured and covers
almost 100% of the Neo4j REST interface. ...
0 replies - 3822 views - 07/23/12 by Josh Adell in Articles
In this article I’m going to describe a novel solution for making
cached versions of dynamic content available, while attempting to
strike a balance...
0 replies - 6018 views - 07/19/12 by Mats Lindh in Articles
In the 1940s, the first computer programmers were all women. That only changed later. Quoting “Researcher reveals how ‘Computer Geeks’ replaced...
0 replies - 3559 views - 07/15/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
We all know how financially important it
is for your app’s server architecture to handle peaks of load. This article
discusses 5 tips for improving PHP Web...
0 replies - 36147 views - 07/11/12 by Gonzalo Ayuso in Articles
Each natural number that is divisible only by 1 and itself is prime.
Prime numbers appear to be more interesting to humans than other
numbers. Why is that...
1 replies - 17154 views - 05/09/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
Continuing where the last screencast left off, this third tutorial shows how to install the Acquia Connector (Acquia is an enterprise Drupal SaaS), and then...
0 replies - 3324 views - 05/04/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
Picking up where part 1 left off, this screencast continues Nick Veenhof's screencast tutorial about setting up Solr on Drupal and running various features. ...
0 replies - 4992 views - 05/03/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
Bringing a programmer in for an interview and a coding test can lead
to some interesting experiences, both for the interviewer and the
interviewee. Most...
8 replies - 22817 views - 05/02/12 by Brian Kelly in Articles
Read this Computerworld posting: Should the CIO know how to code?
The answer is "Yes."
The examples of "well-functioning non-technical...
2 replies - 9234 views - 05/02/12 by Steven Lott in Articles
Do you know what day of the week was the day you were born? Monday or
maybe Saturday? Well, perhaps you know that. Everybody knows the day
he’s born on,...
4 replies - 17509 views - 04/24/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
