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How to Build Your First .NET Graph Database

There has been a lot of talking about NoSQL lately, and how this "new" databases can solve problems of Big Data. NoSQL is a movement that promotes alternatives...

0 replies - 2181 views - 03/13/13 by Damaris Coll in Articles

7 Programmer Recruiting Mistakes

We’ve all met them. The programmers that can’t program. They can hardly write anything that compiles on their own. Producing quality quality code is...

4 replies - 24525 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

When Should I Use An ORM?

I think like everyone, I go through the same journey whenever I find out about a new technology.. Huh? –> This is really cool –> I use it everywhere...

4 replies - 13532 views - 06/25/12 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

Github for Windows Now Available

For quite long time Windows users of github had a huge envy towards Github for Mac - the application that makes work with github based repositories as simple...

1 replies - 6723 views - 05/23/12 by Alexander Beletsky in Articles

SDP December 2011: Everything New in C++

Noam and I delivered on Tuesday a joint session called Everything New in C++ at the SELA Developer Practice. It’s been a really fun session to work on,...

1 replies - 3141 views - 12/09/11 by Sasha Goldshtein in News

What is Functional Programming? Part 2, Currying

In my last post, I provided a list of concepts that I found to be characteristic of functional languages. We’ve talked bout the first three so...

1 replies - 5304 views - 10/30/11 by Christopher Bennage in News

What is Functional Programming? Part 3, Recursion

In the first post in this series, I provided a list of concepts that I found to be characteristic of functional languages. We’ve talked bout the first...

1 replies - 3837 views - 10/30/11 by Christopher Bennage in News

Using system alerts with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1

With the release of the new SDK developers also gained access to a new set of APIs. One of these revolves around the OS-based alert mechanism. If you’ve...

0 replies - 4924 views - 10/08/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

If you don’t have pet projects, I don’t think I want you

I am busy hiring people now, and it got me thinking a lot about the sort of things that I want from my developers. In particular, I was inundated in CVs,...

14 replies - 6277 views - 09/13/11 by Ayende Rahien in News

The AppStore Business Model is Dead

Back in January, I argued that AppStores are not necessary as mobile economics mature and start to mimic web economics. Why do I need to download Skype...

3 replies - 7198 views - 09/06/11 by Stephen Forte in News

How to sniff web traffic from Marketplace-based Android applications

There are cases when it is necessary to track the outgoing and incoming traffic related to Android applications. However, Android as a platform is not really...

0 replies - 7248 views - 04/03/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Mock Static Methods using Spring Aspects

I am a Spring framework user for last three years and I have really enjoyed working with Spring. One thing that I am seeing these days is the heavy use of...

5 replies - 8016 views - 01/25/11 by Shekhar Gulati in Articles

Counting Ruby Objects on the JRuby Heap

I got an email the other day from Michael Yuan. He had been working with some folks who were running an application on JRuby and they thought they might be...

0 replies - 8613 views - 10/08/08 by Gregg Sporar in News

Ajaxified Body

I've often wondered if it was possible to use Ajax to reload the main content of a web application without reloading the header, menu and footer. SiteMesh...

2 replies - 13435 views - 10/06/08 by Matt Raible in News

How To Implement Row Level Access Control In Lucene

Below I have written some fully functionally code that shows how you could implement row level access control in Lucene (2.3.2). Basically you have to index...

0 replies - 7256 views - 10/02/08 by Aaron McCurry in News