Top 7 Programmers bad habits

In the United States, in 1920, the manufacture, sale, and importation of alcoholic beverages was prohibited by a constitutional amendment. That amendment was repealed thirteen years later. During that period of prohibition, the beer industry died.

The other week I was working on my compilers homework – the semantic analysis part is an object-oriented nightmare. Something called the visitor pattern to traverse trees and do weird stuff.

From workload profiling to the three rules of indexing, these expert insights are sure to make your MySQL servers scream

Almost every piece of open land in the San Francisco Bay area that can be developed has been. There are a great many multifamily dwellings, especially in San Jose, if not Palo Alto. All of the remaining open space is park land or in some way not available for development. Further, the transportation infrastructure is similarly saturated.

With one of the most appealing titles I've ever seen in a programming book, I could not recommend Scala for the Impatient highly enough. The author, Cay Horstmann, has written many books about Java, and here he does a great job of explaining Scala, starting at the very basics. Keeping things concise and relevant at all stages, this is a book that respects your own limited time.

With many waiting for the arrival of the Galaxy S3 from Samsung, the question of 4G LTE battery life is coming up.

Kirk Knoernschild is one of the leading experts when it comes to the OSGi community. DZone recently had a chance ot interview him about his thoughts on modularity in 2012 and his new book is "Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples Using OSGi." The book introduces 18 patterns that will help you design more modular software.

This evening it happened to me to read this quite interesting article about why software is so hard to write. In the article, if you don't care or do not want to read it, the blogger reports the decision of a friend of his quitting his (probably highly paid) job as software developer because he got tired of it. The motivation he (the one who quit) suggested are that software is complex to build and is the only large-scale human artifact that is mostly built by hand

ORM are primarily used to avoid writing SQL and persist completely anemic domain, where all the logic reside on services. In such a scenario it is easy to abuse an ORM and probably in the long term the ORM could become much more a pain than a real help.

More women in the tech team could help rebuild the relationship between business and IT. Most CIOs want to hire more women for the IT department, but struggle to find qualified female applicants for the roles they need to fill.

I am huge fan of NodeJs and I believe it’s a very exciting technology and we will see it getting more popular down the line. I greatly admire it but in spite of everything I recently ported Targeter App from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails.

The whole "everyone should learn programming" meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012.

I’ll be attending CamelOne this year, and I’m pretty excited. I didn’t make it to the event last year, but judging by the speaker line up and the presentations given last year, this conference is definitely a must for developers involved in enterprise integration. Check out the presentations from last year. As you can see, the content covered is applicable even if you’re not using the Apache projects. But of course if you are, all the better.

William J. Francis covers Android development basics, such as the necessary tools to get started and a typical project hierarchy.

Lets know who is the King of Open Source Content Managemnt System

For a while now I’ve been wanting to set aside some time to do some sort of web development parody. I’ve done this sort of thing before and it’s fun to see people’s reactions.

Over the last year there's a been a whole new crop of specialized hosting platforms for Django applications. In this panel, we speak to a number of the people behind these new platforms to discuss what benefits they offer, what challenges they face, and what the Django project/community can do to encourage their growth.

Oracle offered closing statements in the second phase of the trial, claiming Google infringed upon two patents related to the Java Virtual Machine.

If you are a project manager or a program manager, or aspiring to be, one of the best project management tools you can add to your toolbox is the Kanban. In fact, if somebody were to ask me, what’s the single best way to exponentially improve project execution, I would probably say, the answer is Kanban. (Well, I might first say, get my book, Getting Results the Agile Way, and adopt Agile Results

The web-logs are popularly known as Blog. Blogs are the most simple and popular among the PHP CMS. Blogs are easy to setup and maintain.

This blog post provides a review of PHPStorm, one of the best IDE for PHP Developers. The author has personally used for many years other solutions. In this article the author explain some of his most favorite features including support for CUBRID PHP API. Check out this blog. It may well introduce you a really nice tool for PHP development.

This is another one I've wanted to write forever. Man, I've tried a bunch of times. No ruck. Not Rucky. Once again I'm stuck feeling so strongly about something that I'm tripping over myself trying to get my point across.

I’ve had my say on cloud and the new world of IT already in an earlier post, Predictions for the future. Today, I’m seeing signs the world is in fact starting to change. Sites like Instagram started small and grew big in no time. Were the founders IT wonders? No. And you don’t have to be.

In the previous tutorial covering functions, I explained how you can use them to break the flow of your applications. Instead of your application running linearly, you can selectively call certain parts of your application to come alive when you want to. That's what functions bring to the table.