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Delicious/bop- Tea-Driven Development :: Two ways to reactWholeheartedly agreed. Years ago +Kent Beck proposed to measure the time that it takes to bring a feature from conceptualization to deployment in production (Kent called it "SIP", Software In Process, analogous to Work In Process from the supply chain world). It would be nice to measure something like that in terms of how you react to bugs discover […]
- 100 Terrific Tools for Coders & Developers | DailyTekkHighly skewed towards mobile & web.
- Economies of Scala | blog.iterate.noGiven no other constraints, the idea to hire developers focusing on languages that are less popular but on the rise makes total sense. It's more than that though: one has to consider also how high the entry level is for a language and whether there's a natural selection in accessing it. For example, with Java it is so low that in practice the major […]
- My Best Mistake: Run from the Fire, You Get Burned | LinkedInI usually don't like those pretend _articles_ posted on Linkedin: they are not very well written, typically sloppy, fluffy at best, just marketing under clumsy disguise. This is not too bad though (even though the marketing element is still there): it's right there in the neighbourhood of one of my favourite subject of late, that is the "impor […]
- Java.next: The Java.next languagesThe first of a series of articles that compare JVM-based languages such as Groovy, Scala and Clojure. This is light, of course, more meat will come in next instalments.
- MemTest for Mac OS X Tests your RAM
- Framework Benchmarks - TechEmpower BlogThis post has generated some interest some days ago and it has been followed by an update. In all honesty, I'm not particularly impressed: * In many ways these micro-benchmarks are flawed and of very little usefulness => what they give me is an idea about O(speed) but not much more than that. The real bottleneck are typically on the application side, […]
- What is Trunk Based Development? - Paul Hammant's blogGreat post, it explains fairly well how we work.
- How to Eliminate Sales CommissionsThis has created some buzz in the tech world in the last few weeks. Personally, I've seen some problems with heavily commission-driven sales people in my previous jobs, but nothing huge: largely we worked together fairly well. I've seen the cultural damages that commissions can create when I worked with traders though and these are guys who can mak […]
- Programming languages ranked by expressiveness – Donnie Berkholz's Story of DataTake everything with a grain of salt. Rather than individual data-points, what makes sense is the global trend and related considerations.
- Tea-Driven Development :: Two ways to react
