Back 10 years or so when Extreme Programming came out, it began to
change the way that programmers thought about testing. XP made software
developers accountable for testing their own code. XPers gave
programmers practices like Test-First Development and...
1 replies - 2713 views - 12/09/11 by Jim Bird in Articles
After the quiet Thanksgiving holiday week here in the States, the the DevOps community on twitter is buzzing again. More fun and interesting tweets have been compiled once again. Here are some of the best tweets I found from
last week.
...
0 replies - 2388 views - 12/05/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Clojure is a LISP dialect; if you have ever been forced to use LISP in a computer science class, I understand your resistance towards this class of totally functional languages.In fact, LISP for many of us means lots of Reverse Polish Notation where (+ 1 2)...
4 replies - 4624 views - 11/29/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Today Puppet Labs revealed that it has received $8.5 million from Google Ventures, VMware, and Cisco—three companies that are dominating various facets of the tech industry. With the unprecedented injection of $8.5M in Series C funding, Puppet Labs now...
0 replies - 3084 views - 11/29/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
I confess, this is heavily influenced by the eXtreme
Programming folks, but I see it recur again and again: we tech folks
have historically been far too quick to say “sure, we can do that”. Even
worse, I’ve done it myself on far too many...
2 replies - 2922 views - 11/16/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
A new issue of Cutter IT's Journal just arrived, and this one's on DevOps… and it's free. To get "Devops: A Software Revolution in the Making?," you just fill out a simple form with the promo code and you get the PDF from Cutter for no charge. ...
0 replies - 3267 views - 11/10/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
DDD Day is an Italian event totally dedicated to Domain-Driven Design, an approach for software development in complex domains such as banking, insurance, transportation systems and so on. DDD Day is organized and attended mostly by a .NET audience, which...
2 replies - 4018 views - 10/11/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
I noticed a couple of comments on DZone about programmers with family not having the time to do hobby projects. As I wrote about my own experiences having a child,
I really empathize with such concerns. It is not easy. It is really
hard to do a fair job...
15 replies - 10351 views - 09/23/11 by Krishna Kumar in News
As a parent, I am always looking at what my children are learning and
what they like. As a software developer, I hope that my daughters
embrace their inner geek one day and get involved with technology. That
being said, I was wondering at what age kids...
2 replies - 14139 views - 07/23/11 by Robert Diana in News
Especially the tech industry is obsessed with finding the next big
thing. This post argues that that is usually not a smart thing to do.
2 replies - 4812 views - 07/06/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Amazon. I recently received a Kindle as a gift and substituted my ebook reader with it. In this article I talk about the 6' model form direct experience.User experience for e-books goes beyond obviously advantages,...
14 replies - 19287 views - 05/31/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
The announcements are coming thick and fast for VMware –
once pigeonholed as a provider of core infrastructure tools, they’ve
rapidly been building a portfolio hat sees them offer tools at all
levels of the stack. Let’s recap on the news of...
0 replies - 2986 views - 05/26/11 by Ben Kepes in News
LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, is going public! Selling at $45 per share, the 7.84 million shares total to an amazing $352.8 million. Originally, LinkedIn had considered offering the shares at $32-$35 per share. Soon,...
0 replies - 21443 views - 05/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Android devs got a punch in the gut this week as Google has decided to keep Android 3.0 Honeycomb's code under lock and key for the foreseeable future. This unexpected move reignites --- or perhaps perpetuates--- the debate surrounding Android's open...
0 replies - 4030 views - 03/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in News
February is obviously job trends month here, and we have another installment. Today, we are looking at NoSQL job trends. In the previous installment of NoSql job trends, there were eight products included.
0 replies - 7215 views - 02/25/11 by Robert Diana in News
The 
