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How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 2)

This is the second part of the article in which I’m sharing a list of simple tips that, in my opinion, can help programmers succeed at their current...

0 replies - 6999 views - 05/22/13 by Yuriy Lopotun in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (5/15)

Mazes, AI, and PathfindingTwo ways through a maze, or more specifically, two pathfinding solutions. One allows the robot to see the entire maze, including...

0 replies - 3053 views - 05/15/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Make Yourself a Data Scientist

Troy Sadkowsky runs through some common challenges in becoming a data scientist, how to overcome them, and his own professional story:

0 replies - 3021 views - 04/25/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Being a Data Scientist at Tumblr and Kickstarter

Data scientists from Tumblr, Kickstarter, and other sites discuss leveraging big data in a startup situation, in this panel from DataGotham 2012:

0 replies - 1356 views - 04/24/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

What We (Developers) Take For Granted

A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation over dinner with a few fellow local development community members. As it always does, the conversation eventually...

2 replies - 4476 views - 04/24/13 by Casey Watson in Articles

Dev of the Week: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

0 replies - 6231 views - 04/17/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

The Quiet Creep of Facial Recognition

If you don’t follow Alistair Croll of Solve for Interesting, you should. In a piece published last week, You’ll Be Tagged, Croll makes the...

0 replies - 1330 views - 04/16/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Google on Open Source

Chris Dibona, open source manager at Google, talks about licences and patents, open source at Google, and more:

0 replies - 644 views - 04/10/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Hadoop Will Not Mow Your Lawn

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." - Jeff Hammerbacher ex- Facebook Architect It turns out...

0 replies - 4145 views - 03/19/13 by Chris Keene in Articles

Talking About Google Reader

As you’ve probably heard by now, Google is shutting down Google Reader on July 1, 2013. Reactions are mixed, ranging from people who say that RSS is dead...

2 replies - 4048 views - 03/18/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles

Seeing Problems Differently

We always have interesting discussions at work, both philosophical and mostly programming discussions. Sometimes the things people say make you think a while...

2 replies - 3244 views - 03/14/13 by Filip Ekberg in Articles

Priming Prime Directive

Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and...

0 replies - 1656 views - 01/31/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles

Getting Past the Big Data Buzz to Yield Business Value

As the Big Data phenomenon continues to gather momentum, more and more organizations are starting to recognize the unexploited value in the vast amounts of...

4 replies - 3186 views - 06/27/12 by Donal Daly 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 - 24557 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

Living La Vida Cloud!

If you’ve been watching broadcast television anytime over the past few months you’ve most likely come across the Microsoft “To the Cloud”...

0 replies - 2309 views - 02/20/12 by JP Morgenthal in Articles