A good writeup by James Shore on The Decline and Fall of Agile (James Shore blog). Software development projects are a hard thing; not necessarily because of the software, but because people are involved. I’ve worked on the most mature (and rigid) software…
According to the Tiobe Programming Community Index, Java is the top/dominant programming language (Aug 2008): Tiobe Programming Community Index, August 2008 (Credit: Tiobe) The same reports indicates that COBOL scores a new all time low (at position 19), yet it still is above…
So Twitter is down, again. Twitter, a great idea, but terribly designed and implemented… Twitter is a great case study: for what a badly designed piece of software is all about, for what not do, or what to avoid, or how NOT to…
“Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure.” — MartinFowler in RefactoringImprovingTheDesignOfExistingCode. Refactoring automation is to S/W developers what spreadsheets are to…
As our project needs grow, it was clear that it was time for eZee to invest some dough into better, integrated tools for issue tracking, change management, and knowledge sharing. For this we acquired Atlassian’s Jira, FishEye (w/ Subversion which we already were…
Tim Bray said at his Ruby Conference keynote speech last week: Rails is “a big deal, a hot deal”, : : “Let’s face the facts: Ruby is too slow,” Bray told delegates. He says Ruby 1.8.6 – which dominates the enterprise landscape –…
A very good presentation Using Static Analysis For Software Defect Detection; William Pugh, Google TechTalks, July 6, 2006: William Pugh — I’ll talk about some of my experience in using and expanding static analysis tools for defect detection. The FindBugs tool developed at…
I’ve been using NetBeans 6.0 throughout the beta/RCs, and now it has gone final/gold… The IDE continues to get better and better. ceo
The C Language is probably the most important programming language; it is fast, compact, and pervasive, and it exposes programmers to very important skills and concepts; you can't be sloppy when using C. The C Language is the language of choice for building…
I just learned via Michael Yuan's blog about dzone, a Digg-like website for developers. Interesting… ceo
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