Cilk Wins Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Award
The PLDI paper "Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language" introduced an efficient form of thread-local deques to control scheduling of... more »
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What makes a good Test Engineer
This article describes what should do become a good software test engineer.
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REST vs WS-* :: A comparison of SOA stacks
The debate continues. Here's a stack comparison diagram I found on the SOA Wiki so that neutral parties can get a perspective.
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Pair programming. What researches say on the costs and benefits of the practice.
Effect of Pair programming on defect rate, quality and costs. Scientifically valid research results only. Not all that rosy.
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Formal Language Processing in Scala, Part 3
This is the third part in a series of articles on formal language processing in Scala, focusing on parser combinators and language interpretation. In... more »
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Formal Language Processing in Scala, Part 2
This is the second part in a series of articles about parser combinators and implementing an interpreter in Scala. In this part I will focus on the... more »
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Project-Oriented SOA
The solution is to combine service lifecycle management, architecture, SOA governance, funding, and SOA metrics into a single comprehensive program.... more »
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Telling a good story - Rspec stories from the trenches
A collection of lessons and guidelines for writing Rspec Stories. With story examples taken from real systems and how they have been improved as I... more »
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Dzone.com and link sharing - Means or Ends ?
Is dzone much more than digg for developers ?
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REST presentation
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz offers up a recent 6MB PowerPoint presentation he did on the REST architectural style. I think it's pretty educational. I know that... more »
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3 Things Multicore Programmers Need
Summary of conversations with ~50 software organizations around the multicore programming challenges, and key criteria for a possible solution.
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W3C On The Relationship Between Usability And Accessibility
The W3C posted an update to the Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), something which... more »
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Startup ideas website launched - BeginUp.com
Looks like it's in beta, but a place to share new startup ideas and suggest new features for existing software
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Programming Language Beauty: Look Closure
In the past year I have been passionately fighting what Simon Peyton Jones calls "the effects monster", although often it feels like I am fighting... more »
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Robust Java benchmarking, Part 1: Issues
A well written article about how Java benchmarking can be difficult to say it the least. If you don't care much about benchmarking, there are other... more »
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Runaway processing [Scala]
Once upon a time there was a graphical programming princess named Processing. She conjured the most beautiful animations and interactive art in all... more »
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DSL and MDE, necessary assets for Model-Driven approaches
The MDA approach and the DSL approach are often seen as totally different or opposite approaches. This article argues that they are complementary and... more »
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Case Classes Are Cool
Of all of Scala’s many features, this one has probably taken the most flack over the past year or so. Not immutable data structures or even... more »
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32 SEO Tips to Boost your Website Traffic
By carefully evaluating techniques required to boost website traffic i have come up with the 32 tips for search engine optimization (SEO) of your... more »
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PHP: Performance Improvement Tips
This post covers some performance improvement tips by showing merits or demerits of various coding practices in PHP. While developing small websites... more »
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Google App Engine performance - Part 1
Okay its been a few weeks now and I thought I'd take a look at the performance and how spiky it was. The highest hit element was the gadget with a few... more »
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Are tech certs worth a crap?
A very interesting analysis using Dice.com to study how professional certifications correlate to jobs.
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Chess Programs Are Not Smart
An overview of how chess programs work, specifically the Minimax algorithm, and why they aren't really "intelligent".
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9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter
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This web roundup will list nine developers that absolutely must be tracked on Twitter. They represent the best of the best and are extremely active in... more »
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Why Not Just Fire All Of Your Programmers?
Experienced programmers shouldn't just be responsible for writing code. It should also be the job of experienced programmers to take those who are... more »
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