Is Microsoft Serious?

Recently I received a press announcement from Waggener-Edstrom, Microsoft's PR company, about their latest move in the interoperability space; I reproduce it...

0 replies - 333 views - 04/04/08 by Ted Neward in Articles

Goal-Driven Development

It’s always amazing to see how people find it hard to compromise, to nuance their opinions about things. And I’m probably the first one finding it hard....

0 replies - 82 views - 03/10/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Who’s slowing you down at work?

You may not be aware of it - they might not be aware of it, but the people in your work environment might be slowing you down.New research by University of...

0 replies - 970 views - 02/22/08 by Abhay Bakshi in Blogs

Code Complete Doesn't Mean You're Done

Joe Coder runs through his feature in the UI. It works. The doodad renders beautifully on the screen, and when he clicks the button, all the right things...

1 replies - 2091 views - 02/22/08 by Mark Turansky in News

CSS3: A solution for applications, or are we the boiling frogs?

The old saying goes, if you throw a frog into boiling water, he will jump out quickly. If you put the frog in a pot of water and slowly increase the...

2 replies - 1725 views - 02/21/08 by Dan Wilson in Blogs

Groovy (and Ruby) Only Solves Half the Problem

It is with some dismay I've been reading the latest Groovy discussions on Javalobby. I've spent quite some time learning Scala, so it bothered me a bit that I...

10 replies - 6629 views - 02/20/08 by Mats Henricson in News

The Mission of a Software Architect

Recently, I read Steven Devijver's The YAGNI Argument (You Ain't Gonna Need It) and found a link to one of Martin Fowler's IEEE articles Who needs an...

8 replies - 3581 views - 02/20/08 by Rainer Eschen in News

Will "Made in India" Software Products Become a Reality?

This article discusses the reasoning as to why India should adopt a "Product Development" strategy to give a further boost to it's software exports....

3 replies - 683 views - 02/20/08 by Sunil Bhatia in News

7 Habits of Highly Effective Freelance Programmers

I have developed these based on my freelancing experience. Though I have discontinued freelancing, but would like to share my practices with you. These are...

3 replies - 4326 views - 02/18/08 by Sunil Bhatia in News

NYTimes "Dumb and Dumber" Americans - Duh... what about develoeprs?

One of this week's most emailed stories at The New York Times is "Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?" Here's a brief excerpt from...

6 replies - 1467 views - 02/18/08 by Rick Ross in News

9 Signs You Shouldn't Hire THAT Web Guy

My employer specializes in creating websites for middle-sized businesses. We rarely create "Mom'n'Pops" websites and generally don't pursue...

39 replies - 28306 views - 02/11/08 by David Walsh in News

How poor technology choices can cut you off from big chunks of the market

Why oh why don't people show a little respect for web standards? I just did a short investigation of an online payment solution for a government agency, and...

0 replies - 67 views - 02/10/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs

Will Eclipse RCP ever be used for more than the IDE and for making nerd applications?

The Eclipse RCP is a framework for client applications that has clearly been used with great success to support the IDE itself, but when it comes to building...

11 replies - 1817 views - 02/08/08 by Henrik Schulz in News

No More Free Interviews

A friend of mine went to a job interview today in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was situated at the other end of the city and given that there are 15 million...

0 replies - 911 views - 02/07/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Another Poetic Perspective - this Time on JavaLobby Itself (Comic)

This vision of JavaLobby had appeared quite some time ago, before the new trends showed up... But I thought I would share it with you - now more as an...

2 replies - 1355 views - 02/06/08 by Ann Oreshnikova in News