Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design
In this conversation Microsoft Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C# Anders Hejlsberg sits down with programming language design legend and... more »
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5 Trends of Popular WordPress Blogs
5 WordPress trends and how-to for web developers: User Contributed Link Feed, Post Thumbnail, Tabbed Content and more.
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The Repository Pattern – I’m Sold!
Lately, I've been playing with NHibernate and the Repository pattern - and struggling with it a bit. I understand the concept, but it's the... more »
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What's the Best Way to Handle Exceptions???
It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of "rules" that... more »
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15 High Quality Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes
15 Free Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive and you might be willing to use for your next project.
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Is MapReduce going mainstream?
Compares MapReduce to other parallel processing approaches and suggests new paradigm for clouds and grids.
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Engineering Windows 7 : User Interface: Managing Windows windows
We’ve booted the machine, displayed stuff on the screen, launched programs, so next up we’re going to look at a pretty complex topic that sort of gets... more »
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State-of-the-art architecture for web content management systems
There are similarities in current WCMS rewrites like Typo3 and Day Communique. These common themes can be considered as state-of-the-art in designing... more »
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I've Seen Why the Number of Computer Science Majors is Declining
A popular discussion online these days is the decline in the number of Computer Science students these days. I am a Computer Science major and... more »
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Common mistakes in software development (part 2): Mixing up the tiers
In my previous post I explained some very quick wins to make your code a little bit cleaner. As I’ve been appointed an asp.net project at work at the... more »
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Oops, There Goes Another Web Site: The Web Is Disappearing
If there’s one thing we know for sure about the Internet, it is that by its very nature it is a transient medium. What was 10 years ago, is generally... more »
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Why Web2.0 Must Go
It's time that developers and web-based businesses realize that the term Web2.0 is doing more harm than good. For years now, the meaning of Web2.0... more »
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Anders Hejlsberg on the Past, Present and future of C#
Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of the most common programming languages, C#, and what the future holds for C#4.0.
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The Blurring Line Between Plugins and Gems
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Now that there is something called gem dependencies in Rails, which refers to the ability to specify what gems a Rails application requires from... more »
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India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
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Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more sober days in the wake of the credit crisis.
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Things I Hate - People Who Do-Not Know How to Report Bugs
Bugs are an inevitable part of development that most people loath or at least generally dislike. If you take the time to examine this phase of a... more »
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Becoming a Kick-ass PHP ninja
A guide for newbie PHP developers to become a kick-ass PHP ninja by upgrading themselves through a number of technical and personal improvements.
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Technology - is the party over?
It does seem unlikely that the bubble will burst in quite the same way as it did last time. After all, the hot money that went into dotcoms in the... more »
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Ex-Google Employees - The Google Diaspora
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Call it the Google exodus, the Google diaspora, whatever--in almost any given week, blogs and business sections perk up with news that key figures at... more »
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Adobe AIR Application Installations Surpass 25 Million
Adobe reported that there have been more than 25 million installations of applications deployed on Adobe AIR in the first six months since its... more »
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"Cloud computing is a trap" - Richard Stallman
Do you agree ?
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Zen and the Art of the Six-Figure Linux Job
An expert in the Linux job market talks about earning a lucrative payday. Plus: the effect of H-1B visas on Linux salaries.
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Writing your own code vs. using Plugins
Discussion about writing Ruby code from scratch vs. using Rails Plugins. Talks about the pros and cons of each and why both can make you a better... more »
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How to instrument your Java EE applications for a virtualized environment
If you're excited about the automation capabilities of cloud computing and virtualization, you are going to love this solution. In a virtualized... more »
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