Software Development
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Open Source Culture and Ideals
Watching the commercial software industry frenetically trying to make process work occasionally feels similar to watching tragicomedy. This constant struggle…
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Application Lifecycle Management at Eclipse
The Eclipse Foundation has evolved a pretty impressive application lifecycle management story. Based on what I’ve observed over the years,…
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Can you get more out of Static Analysis?
When it comes to static analysis, Bill Pugh, software researcher and the father of Findbugs (the most popular static analysis…
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IntelliJ IDEA Tip: Configuration Profiles
How many plugins do you have installed in your IntelliJIDEA instance? How many of the plugins are actually active? Do…
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Taking over the Codebase, Solving the Spaghetti Crisis
We’ve all been there. Somebody asks if you can take a look at their website that has been stagnant for…
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End of ERP as we know it?
A friend of mine on Facebook drew my attention to this blog post, ‘End of ERP’ by Tien Tzuo on…
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What Refactoring is, and what it isn’t
Sometimes a programmer will come to me and explain that they don’t like the design of something and that “we’re…
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Humour Time: Programming Puns
Though not strictly puns, I tried to make them sort-of funny: – What are you doing on this bench with…
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Building High Performance Applications
Performance is one word which is used to describe multiple scenarios’ when talking about the application performance. When someone says,…
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