Software Development
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Drones and Big Data
Two weeks ago, I had a conversation with some colleagues where I was postulating a future bull market for drones,…
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What the Heck are Non-Functional Requirements?
Simply put, if functional requirements create code that will address the needs of the end-users (customers), then non-functional requirements…
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When Source Code Comments Indicate Trouble
Developers have their own, cynical kind of humour. Consider, for instance, Geek and Poke’s view on how to insult a…
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Insidi-DoS: Internally negotiated, self-image-damaging DoS
What’s more damning and ego-bruising than an external DoS (denial of service) attack? Why, an internally inspired one of course.…
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Technology Decisions Are About Trade Offs and Solving Problems
At some point in the last decade we hit the inflection point where distributed systems, and all their complexities, became…
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Can we learn to restrict our work to a budget?
I’ve previously talked about the idea of shifting from estimates to budgets. The fundamental point of this article is that…
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Software demand curve
Returning to my series of posts applying the tools of economics to software development – Supply & Demand in software…
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Native vs Mobile Web vs Hybrid applications
We have decided on developing a mobile application, but what type of application ? There has been an ongoing debate with…
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What Open Source is (and isn’t) and why you should use it?
Open Source software plays a big role in the Java ecosystem (just think Maven, all the libraries in Maven Central,…
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