Is WebKit too fast for its own good?
mitchp
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Let me start by saying I have the utmost respect for the WebKit team, and all the amazing things they have delivered with their rendering... more »
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An Apple App Star Explains Why He Won’t Work With Android
Smith is part of a small but vocal chorus of app developers who say they don’t want to move to Android, even though it is growing... more »
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RJC501: How Much Does Turnaround Cost?
Over the Reloading Java Classes (RJC) article series, we’ve examined how class reloading happens, from objects and classloaders to... more »
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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal « What I Couldn't Say…
I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking... more »
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Flash the savior of the universe?
mitchp
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While Adobe is now moving to support Flash 10.1 on higher end phones, there will be a Flash Lite opportunity for years to come. Why?... more »
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The Times They Are a-Changin’ ? Maybe Not
This post is not about a Bob Dylan against Karl Marx debate, but about a thought that came when, after following a conference presenting... more »
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Dr. Strangecode. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Legacy
Someone recently asked me what technologies I would recommend for the next Enterprise Web Project. Like a good little software developer,... more »
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SOA: Anti-Principles
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Okay so everyone knows what a principle is, its a core concept that you are going to measure things about. I've seen projects littered... more »
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Initiative - Opera 10.50 for one week
I want to call up one initiative: Opera 10.50 like your primary browser for one week.
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A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, Repositories and Separation of Concerns
What I've loved most about developing an open-source project is the ideas that I get from others who look at the work and either A)... more »
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How to avoid phase-of-the-Moon bugs
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Wikipedia documents some definitions of particularly dangerous bugs, which are very hard to fix and when they manifest constitute a real... more »
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In Defense of Scrum [Please Stop Pissing on It]
Last week Uncle Bob Martin wrote about seven “serious flaws” in Scrum. I usually agree with Bob, but not this time. Actually, I might... more »
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Static methods vs singletons: choose neither | php|architect
This article provides a nice summary of the debate(s) surrounding the static method vs. singleton debate in PHP development. It suggests... more »
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Felipe Gaúcho - A Loss To The Java Community
I was very sad to read the news that Felipe Gaúcho had passed away this weekend. Felipe has been an active member of JavaLobby for many... more »
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iPhone development is for addicts
mswatcher
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The other day I had an interesting discussion with a good friend & rather ardent Apple & iPad hater. As a long-time Apple fanboy, I was... more »
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How To Avoid Coding Yourself To Death
Experience has shown that the following points mess around with delivering software on time and increase the work load on software developers.
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Software patents
“Oh No, IBM. You cannot compete with me. I’ve got this patent. IBM says let’s see. Let’s look at your product. Hmmm. I’ve got this patent... more »
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The case against Rock Star developers
While delivering the Agile Seminars in Pune, India and Taipei, Taiwan over the last week, the question of the development team came up.... more »
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Experience Levels for Programmers
Jr. Programmers typically have some training in a computer language or a development tool and less than two years of overall professional... more »
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Investing In Pain: Invisible Technical Debt
All too often we slap together solutions in the name of finishing on time. This has been described as incurring technical debt: Just as a... more »
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Should I Work For Free?
An article which asks; are there any advantages in working for free?
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Is it just rails or contributing to any open source project leads to anger and frustration?
I am naught but a humble developer. Neither rails nor ruby occupies me professionally. All I wanted was rails with view inheritance (look... more »
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What Microsoft Could Learn from Avatar
When a movie is as successful as James Cameron’s movie Avatar has been, Hollywood takes notice. We can assume that other studios and... more »
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How to Become a Solid Web Developer, the Short Version
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Every once in a while people ping me on how to master web development and design. Given that there’s still so much I have to learn this... more »
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7 Reasons For Apple To Acquire Adobe
I agree it seems a far stretch that this will happen. But if it does happen it certainly will explain a few things. If Apple does acquire... more »
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