Cloud-Oriented Architecture (COA)
With all the hype this year about cloud computing and things like Amazon EC2/S3 as well as Google App Engine and Bigtable, you can feel it coming.... more »
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Dependency Injection is Broken
Earlier today I was reading a blog about the worthlessness of constructors. Frankly, I didn't really get the point of the post, but the title was... more »
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An Introduction To Open Sim: the "Apache of Virtual Worlds"
You've probably read a bit about Open Sim, the BSD-licensed virtual world server, and recent news that IBM and Linden Lab are working to make Second... more »
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25 Painless Ways to Free Up an Hour a Day for Your Goals
What would you do if you had an extra hour a day? This is a common barrier I run into when I write about making positive life changes: people don’t... more »
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Apache Geronimo, Still Interesting, Still Troubling
I tried Apache Geronimo a little bit in the 1.0 era, mostly just to see what all the talk was about. It looked like it had some interesting concepts,... more »
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Database Best Practices
Every production application I have been involved with has made use of a database. As a programmer, you don’t have to be a DBA, but just as with... more »
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Singletons are Pathological Liars
So you join a new project, which has an extensive mature code base. Your new lead asks you to implement a new feature, and, as a good developer, you... more »
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Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6
In the recent relaunch of my site, I gave it some thought and made some decisions about supporting IE6. I'm not going to support it. Not on this site... more »
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Windows based programmers... Stop hating CLIs (Command Line Interfaces)
If you are a unix/linux lover, this article may not be of interest to you, because you should be knowing the power of CLIs in *nix operating systems.... more »
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Dont Fear The Poly Headed Polyglot Monster
Google avoids it by sticking to a limited set of languages. I don't work at Google, so I can't claim to know what their architecture looks like in... more »
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Should you cache?
Memcached's popularity is expanding its use into some odd places. It's becoming an authoritative datastore for some large sites, and almost more... more »
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Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it
A year or so ago I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. Here’s the same kind of list for Microsoft’s... more »
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Who's to blame, Microsoft and/or the .Net Community
I’m interested in why most of Microsoft and some other developer’s demons about writing apps mostly begin with the creation of a database? The design... more »
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3 Simple Ways to Add Creativity to Our Web Work
Creativity is an important aspect of a web worker’s life. From creating original designs to composing an apologetic letter to a client, we need to... more »
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Do Architects need coding skills?
Do Architects need coding skills? In the oft cited parallel world of construction and engineering (of buildings), it is true that to be an... more »
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30+ Ways to Create an Incredible Client Experience
On July 31st we launched a collaborative initiative with FreshBooks to give away ten 1-year Shuttle Bus subscriptions worth $168 each (see the prize).... more »
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How To Not Fit In On A Development Team
I’ve stated several times in the past that being a software developer today involves so much more than just being able to whip up code… it involves... more »
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How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND)
I was all set to write an informative post about HashSets today, but I'm not going to. Instead, I'm going to finally start what will be a new... more »
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Sun is using the GPL as a weapon...but against whom and for what purpose?
A commentary on Sun's policy of releasing pure GPL-only software libraries, whose restrictive license means they cannot be used on any real world... more »
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The Perils of FUI: Fake User Interface
As a software developer, tell me if you've ever done this: 1. Taken a screenshot of something on the desktop 2. Opened it in a graphics... more »
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Project-Oriented SOA
The solution is to combine service lifecycle management, architecture, SOA governance, funding, and SOA metrics into a single comprehensive program.... more »
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Nobody Thinks They're An Enterprise
Any technology whose name contains the words business or enterprise is crap until proven not. And might be crap even when proven not.
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Concurrency Oriented Programming and Side Effects
In my last post on Scala actors, I had mentioned about the actor code being side-effect-free and referentially transparent. James Iry correctly... more »
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Top 3 Reasons Why Constructors are Worthless
In my last post, I made an offhand reference to the fact that object constructors are worthless in Java. I was asked why this is, so I thought I'd... more »
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Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code
Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code. In this case the query run time went from 24 hours+ to 36... more »
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