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I don’t know about you, but when I find something wordy but really worth reading on the web, I print it out. Sure, I could try reading it on my tablet, but do you really ...

Mistakes made when developing with Ajax .

Forty certainly isn t as old as it used to be, but it s still a great excuse for a celebration. For the 40th Birthday gift-buyer, though, it can be a troublesome age to buy for.

To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. Writing...

In a recent post , I compared the expressiveness of the Ruby style of writing code to the current C# style of writing code. I then went on and demonstrated one approach to ach...

A chronograph is an electronic instrument that has one or more hands that can be stopped on command for the explicit purpose of measuring elapsed time.

While we’re on the topic of appropriate analogies for software development, my homie Micah writes a post about how certain analogies fall short, and he compares writing ...

A tour of the great applications and libraries that come with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 All major Linux distributions include a lot of free software applications and li...

One common task while browsing the web is making sure you will be able to recall a valuable information you are just looking at. This article aims to prove that social bookmark...

Jeff Atwood writes a great summary of Open Source Licenses . As far as I’m concerned, there’s really only four software licenses to worry about (open source or oth...

One common objection I hear to TDD and writing unit tests is that it creates a lot of extra work to develop software. And this is true, but it does not give a complete picture....

Hey Guys! Don?t raise your eyebrows or fear by hearing the word Linux. It is as user friendly as windows. Just take a look at the articles below and all myths about Linux in yo...

Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. - Wikipedia Why it is so difficult to understand the nature of the Softwa...

Websites are built for specific types of viewers and must appeal to a definite target market. Users must be able to view your site, scan everything, and immediately understand ...

You may have read accounts of webmasters who earn small fortunes by developing Google AdSense-optimized websites. The reports are true. However, these webmasters comprise a sma...

A while ago, Jeff Atwood wrote about the merits of laziness for successful software developers. Lest this become the mantra of sub-performing developers everywhere, I wante...

As a kid, one of my favorite tools I had was a shiny red cased Victorinox swiss army knife. I’d carry that sucker around with me everywhere, using the main blade to tackl...

Microsoft CRM - CRM answer from Microsoft Business Solutions has aggressive pricing, going down and making it affordable for small companies. We see cases when Microsoft CRM r...

Microphones are transducers, devices that change information from one form to another. They detect sound information as air pressure patterns, which they interpret and "transla...

When searching for source code in a particular language, what do the words being searched on tell you about that language? Koders.com publishes an interesting Open Source Ze...

Introduction MySQL Cluser Server is a fault-tolerant, redundant, scalable database architecture built on the open-source MySQL application, and capable of delivering 99.999%...

Q : What is over clocking? Overclocking is when you make your system processor run faster that its normal speed. This has many advantages and dis-advantages. Advantages...

Now I like to take shots at myself for producing drivel now and then, but today, I’m going to take a shot at someone else’s drivel. I really should be working right...

I had to recently figure how to enable mssql support for php at an instalation i was doing. There isn t an easy way or a simple one. I do not pretend that what i did was the b...

In Jeff Atwood’s infamous FizzBuzz post , he quotes Dan Kegel who mentions. Less trivially, I’ve interviewed many candidates who can’t use recursion to ...

In the The Mythical Man-Month , Fred Brooks highlights an eye opening disparity in productivity between good and poor programmers ( emphasis mine ). Programming managers...

A good alternative to Ubuntu Debian is well respected as a stable server distribution, and most of the reviews focus on aspects appropriate to server deployments. This article...

Businesses need a website to compete in today's markets. The problem is everyone else has a website too, because they want to compete. The result is thousands of sites selling ...

Most of the time when I’m testing my code, I only test it using the en-US culture since, ...well..., I speak English and I live in the U.S. Isn’t the U.S. the only ...

Have you ever wanted to take a look at the internals of the .NET Framework? Sure you can (and should) fire up Reflector and see the Base Class Libraries, but what about the f...