Software Development
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Things Great Engineers (almost) Never Say
My job as a recruiter of software engineers and my 12 years as a user group leader have provided me…
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Using Hudson/Jenkins to diagnose that intermittent failure
I have been working on one of those intermittent bugs that just won’t reproduce on my machine; but will reproduce…
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Bad developer – good boss
While I am typing this, some developer is creating his kick-off application that will make him a millionaire. Well ok,…
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Bad Things Happen to Good Code
We need to understand what happens to code over time and why, and what a healthy, long-lived code base looks…
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The Business Opportunity of the Decade
Peter Drucker, the famed management guru, frequently talks about risk (more specifically managing risk) in a business. Per usual, he…
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Coding and Cynicism
We had no reasons to be anxious about this component. It has been running for about an year now. It…
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Three mobile projects from the Apache Software Foundation
When somebody says “Apache Software Foundation” in a discussion on Open Source, some people try to provoke with a big…
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Big Data: All Aboard the Information Bus
What is good for the short term is often not good for the long term. A simple example from baseball:…
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The Myth of Start Up Costs
Conventional wisdom in the start-up community these days is that it has never been cheaper to start and build a…
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