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The Top 5 Books I Read in 2008

I read several books in 2008, 90% of them were technical. I also read a number of books related to software development rather than a specific framework or...

11 replies - 14756 views - 12/22/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Is Code Coverage Important?

How much code coverage is enough? Do you consider having 100% code coverage an uphill task? Based on whom you talk to, the reply you get varies considerably. I...

20 replies - 5716 views - 10/20/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Why You MUST Read Clean Code

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship written by Robert C. Martin is one of the best books I have read in the past few years. This is the book...

18 replies - 8980 views - 10/13/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Leveraging Unit Tests As Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors

Frank Cohen will demonstrate the new PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 open- source end-to-end service governance and test automation tool. Software developers...

0 replies - 5792 views - 07/21/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

A Cross-Language Generics Trick - Java, Scala and C#

Given a Pair<T, U> type in Java, Scala or C#, such as Map.Entry, Tuple2 or KeyValuePair respectively, you can construct type-checked variadic...

0 replies - 3274 views - 06/25/08 by Ricky Clarkson in Articles

Java, .NET, and PHP In One Webapp? The Holy Grail of Mashups.

What if you could run a single webapp with Java, PHP, and ASP.NET AJAX in one webapp?  Stay with me for a minute, because I think there might be a powerful...

1 replies - 5151 views - 04/10/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Is LINQ leaving Java in the dust?

Interesting story today asking whether LINQ has given .NET an edge over Java. LINQ is best-known as a way to embed SQL-like statements directly in code. ...

3 replies - 9795 views - 01/30/08 by Alex Miller in News