February 2011
1 post
The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.:... →
Well said, and nearly all points do matter - I think a good maintained open source project may even work without own domain, see tons of examples at google code which is just enough to have a project homepage that delivers.
thechangelog:
Apologies for the loaded headline. It’s a hat tip to the Twitter how-to articles that taught us the benefits of setting our avatars, writing a witty bios,...
March 2010
1 post
“It does not try to hide relational database concepts from the developer, on the...”
– Squeryl: a functional bridge between Scala objects and relational data (via coderspiel)
February 2010
1 post
Mathematics & Lunch
Question:
Given a pizza, what’s it’s volume when a is the height and z is the radius?
Answer:
pi*z*z*a
November 2009
2 posts
Most Relevant Articles on Snow Leopard Upgrade
alexpopescu:
By now the internet is full of materials, discussions, debates, arguments about the new Mac OS version: Snow Leopard. I will not upgrade right away as I usually like to leave these new products for a couple of weeks/month to see the dust settling down and the bugs coming out.
Meanwhile, I’ve started to put together a reading list covering the most important aspects
Mac OS X 10.6...
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October 2009
1 post
In Relation To... Hibernate Validator 4 unleashed →
Looks like Hibernate Validator gets mature. Note to self: Check whether we should try to make a Struts2 plugin for it …
September 2009
1 post
No Starch Press: The Manga Guide to Databases →
So, you’ve read your first “Head’s first” book? Used to unconventional ways of delivering stuff to learn? Then you might be interested in a slightly different aproach to tell the database story …
August 2009
7 posts
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Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation |... →
Although not surprisingly for a TED talk, this is a real eye opener on what we think is motivating in contrast to what actually is motivating, and how business can learn from it. As a side note, one company mentioned in the talk as a great example how traditional motivation patterns can be overcome is our beloved and famous Atlassian. Congrats for that, Mike.
Collaboration in Bespin →
The collaboration support Joe describes here looks really amazing. Would like to see similar stuff in IDEA or Netbeans - although I haven’t looked at current extensions, which should be on my TODO list now
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Rails, Scrum, CMMI and Survivor Bias | Code... →
Stephan makes an important point to remind when talking about the latest language/framework/methodology and how successful it is: Most likely we will only hear about the success stories, while the failed attempts aren’t that well documented!
Code To Joy: Open-Source group announces ... a new... →
I pretty much agree that this new VM based language is most likely to get a lot of market share
Open Gesture - Android Desktop Replacement |... →
Great android home screen replacement (via @crazybob)
Points Of View | Geek Hero Comic - A webcomic for... →
nothing but the truth …