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Programming language comparisons raise the most flame wars on blogs and forums. Each developer rooting for his favorite language and deriding all the others. Most comparisons are like comparing apples-to-oranges, devoid of any logic, and arguments frequently hinging on ad-hoc rationalization and technical naïveté.
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This post is based on Ward Cunningham’s Signature Survey: A Method for Browsing Unfamiliar Code article. Ward suggests that when studying new and unfamiliar source codes, it is vital that a programmer get a intuitive sense of the code structure under consideration. One method he suggests is that of summarizing on a single line select [...]
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Opa is a new generation of web development platform – it is a new programming language, a new web server, a new database and a new distributed execution engine, all of them tightly integrated to provide a great experience for web developers. OPA is concise, simple and readable, it is also provides concurrent, dynamically distributed, [...]
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We have come a long way in web development – from static sites to distributed applications in the cloud; helped by a plethora of languages and frameworks. Many technologies made a surprising return – like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, JavaScript made a resurrection and with it the rise of libraries like jQuery and [...]
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It is surprising to see how after all the code floating around people still find it hard to create random numbers. In a recent piece of code I encountered, the following was used to generate a string of random numbers. The code was written to provide a random string to be passed to a email [...]
Creating a business application is one thing, measuring user-satisfaction another. Most software houses in recent years have woken up to the importance of user-facing metrics, the knowledge that user satisfaction regarding software application performance is an integral part of business success. But the problem in application performance measurement is that there are too many metrics [...]
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Software development is an exercise in managing complexity, and the more tools and methods we have at our disposal the easier it gets. One of my favorites is logging – recording important code execution points that I think are important, especially during debugging. Whenever developing functions or class methods I make it a point to [...]
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interface design as an important part of software development
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importance of Project Value Analysis in delivering a successful project
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