Do Not Litter Your Code With Null Checks
Just read the following post on the performance of try/catch and throwing exceptions. In the author’s small (and completely unrepresentative of... more »
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Don't Be Afraid of People Better Than You
Girl Developer discusses why you shouldn't be afraid of your company's next best thing.
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Perfect Christmas presents for Software Developer
Still searching for a christmas present? These books might be the perfect match for a Software Developer...
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A Brief Conversation with David Moon
I had an email conversation between myself, David Moon & Daniel Weinreb. For the younger readers: David Moon is one of the original architects of the... more »
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Young & Upcoming Generation of Powerful Languages
Several upcoming popular future programming languages including some on top of JVM and CLR ( IronRuby, Scala , Clojure, Groovy, F#, Erlang, Haskell... more »
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Making unit testing a priority
Developers who don't do unit tests might say they don't know about unit testing or that unit tests are hard to write. But they must get past that way... more »
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To Grails or not to Grails?
I had the privilege of speaking with Mr. Grails, Graeme Rocher at Spring One Americas. I'm personally not sold on using Grails as a whole for my... more »
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How to start the transition to Agile within your organization: “Baby Steps” or “Big Bang”?
Why do you want to become Agile? What are the goals you want to achieve with that? Think about it. And then - think again.
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Edge of Chaos and Hyper Productive Software Development Teams
ow can we apply the edge of chaos concept to software development?
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Algorithms IRL: Gradient Descent and Start-up Ideas (2/3)
Alright, so last time I went through some really non-controversial examples of how thinking in terms of gradient descent leads us easily to lessons... more »
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Question of the Day -- What's Worse?
From Twitter yesterday, I was griping about how once you use a Generics Constraint once and suddenly that same constraint has to immediately ripple... more »
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The Wisdom Of Insecurity
In theory, with experience comes wisdom, but what are the results of that wisdom? Better technical decisions? Sure. Better communication skills?... more »
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Five Great Ways to Conquer Your Fears
It is a rare person who lives without fear of one kind or another. You may fear heights, or spiders, or new situations, or rejection–whatever your... more »
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Do Not Litter Your Code With Null Checks
Just read the following post on the performance of try/catch and throwing exceptions. In the author’s small (and completely unrepresentative of... more »
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Iterative AND Incremental
A few years north of a decade ago, the terms "iterative and incremental" were how folks increasingly spoke about software development.
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LINQ-to-Entities: The Blackberry Storm of ORMs?
One of the best new features to appear in .NET recently has been LINQ (language integrated query) - and particularly, LINQ-to-SQL. This marvellous bit... more »
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Google: Open source lets us control our destiny
By utilising open source, Google's Chris DiBona says the company is able to control its own destiny without having issues with vendors or relying on... more »
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A few thoughts about memory cache | FactoryPattern.com
A few thoughts about caching data into memory to improve the performance and how to use it in scalable applications.
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How Do You Deal With Common Infrastructure Code For Multiple Projects?
Here’s the situation: a couple of months ago we started developing according to a new architecture. Obviously, you need infrastructure code for this.... more »
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De-optimization
hy? Why! Why do managers make stupid decisions that cause devastating churn and tawdry results? And it's not just managers, though they are... more »
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5 tips for Iterating through the holidays
As we get closer to the holiday season, external factors threaten to disrupt the sprint rhythm. People go on vacation, sprint meetings fall on or... more »
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Meaningful code metrics
The software industry has a cyclic love-hate relationship with code metrics. At times, metrics appear to be quite helpful and at other times, doubt... more »
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Artificial Complexity and Internet Applications
Good programmers seem to end up as polyglot programmers. The Pragmatic Programmers have long advised learning a new language every year. Not only does... more »
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Object 101 - What is an Object?
Judging from the responses to my last post on uniformity it looks as though I started off with the bar too high. So lets lower it a bit. Lets go right... more »
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Servlet 3.0 (JSR 315) update
It's been a while since I gave an update about servlet 3.0. However while I haven't been blogging we at the expert group are working through refining... more »
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