If you have the right people....
I was looking at a small company's recent 10-Q filing and was struck
that 1/2 of their total assets were in their proprietary software.
0 replies - 1360 views - 01/26/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles
I recently came across Carl Erickson’s ‘small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams‘ blog post which reminded me of something which my colleague Ashok suggested as a useful way for determining team size – the application footprint.
0 replies - 1229 views - 01/26/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
For example, Travis Griggs' blog post explains some of the best OOP advice he ever received.What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you, and why it was so good? Maybe include some particular projects the advice helped you with, or how the advice...
23 replies - 16195 views - 01/18/12 by John Esposito in Articles
JSON is a good alternative when you need a lightweight format to
specify structured data. But sometimes (for example when you want the
user to specify JSON manually) you would like to relax the formalism
required to specify “valid” JSON data. For...
0 replies - 1603 views - 01/18/12 by Attila-mihaly Balazs in Articles
Programmers are a special breed, good programmers
especially – our craft is more an art than we like to admit when trying
to wrestle it into a Hard Engineering Discipline ™. It’s actually more
like mathematics, music or the wizardry Kaylee does in...
0 replies - 2869 views - 01/18/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles
Smart technical people (aka Hackers) have likely dedicated thousands,
tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of hours of their lives
learning, understanding, and generally figuring out how things work. If
you find yourself asking for help, I'd...
0 replies - 2053 views - 01/17/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles
I am a little late to this party where Michael Arrington says that startups mean working hard
and sleeping under your desk. But I will add a few words. I read a lot
of commentary about how such death marches can be counter-productive and
ultimately...
7 replies - 7730 views - 01/17/12 by Krishna Kumar in Articles
The web has made things simpler, and as our lives revolve more and more around it, the way we interact with it has become simpler, too. As James Governor puts it:
0 replies - 2188 views - 01/17/12 by Christopher Smith in Articles
If you’ve got a professional attitude
regarding your developer carrer, chances are you’re looking to improve
your knowledge, whether it’s language-related or framework-related (or
even process-related but it is more far-fetched). So far, I found the...
0 replies - 2593 views - 01/16/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles
2011 was a pretty eventful year for the Java community. We got the long awaited release of Java 7, watched the drawn out Oracle vs Google case and got even more languages built on top of the JVM. The following are a few of the key events and trends that I've...
0 replies - 6820 views - 12/30/11 by James Sugrue in Articles
Merry DevOps holidays to you all! DZone brought you some funny and interesting tweets as a present!@jpoesen: Joery PoesenEvery time you postpone automating dev environment creation, it bites you in the ass. Every. Single. Time. #devops
0 replies - 2497 views - 12/26/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Not everything is free, or open source, in a developer's life. If you're looking for inspiration about what to get for that special programmer in your life this Christmas, here are some ideas that would make excellent gifts.
0 replies - 6100 views - 12/09/11 by James Sugrue in Articles
I'm back from Devoxx, having had lots of food for thought. In
particular, my panel on Why We Shouldn't Target Women generated a lot of
discussion and I'm still trying to process it all.
3 replies - 3928 views - 11/23/11 by Trisha Gee in Articles
Today’s tech entrepreneurs would be out of their minds to build out
their own data centers rather than renting capacity from Amazon or
another low-cost provider. --Barb Darrow recounting the statements of Andy Bechtolsheim (former Sun Micro)
2 replies - 2542 views - 11/12/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Jeff Wofford singles out “getting stuck” as A Programmer’s Greatest Enemy.
Stuck as getting stuck with a problem that you just can’t solve. This
situation gets frustrating fast. Jeff even tells a story of a coworker
getting stuck so bad that he got...
2 replies - 2663 views - 10/17/11 by Jens Schauder in Articles
