The Myths of Developing a Popular Game
There are, and there have been, thousands, maybe even millions of very successful games that have been released to the world. Some of them fully... more »
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Meta-Programming with Scala Part III: Partial function application
In my previous post about Meta-Programming with Scala I suspected that there was no way to express partial function application in Scala’s type... more »
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MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 6: Order Statistics
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This is the fourth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lecture six, which is... more »
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Teaching Computer Science Principles while Remaining Language Agnostic
A discussion about how computer science fundamentals are taught to university students, and approaches to improve education.
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MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 4 and 5: Sorting
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This is the third post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lectures four and... more »
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Industrialization of Open Source Project Doesn't Improve Quality
Even if commercial companies back now most of the major open source projects for software development tools, users perception of their quality has not... more »
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5 Ways To Save Time While Developing a Game
If you’ve ever made any type of game, you should know that it usually takes a pretty large chunk of time to develop. Nobody likes to waste time, well... more »
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Logging in unit tests?
Should we use logging in unit tests? I'm having a discussion about the use of log4j in junit tests. I am really against the idea. The way I see it, a... more »
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My effective time management theory
I like to write about my own time management theory that I apply on projects and it works very well...
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Basics of framework design
If you consider developing a framework you should begin with the logic of framework design. This article will show you the concepts of framework... more »
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PHP Optimization Tips #1
Usually I’m a code performance freak. I like to squeeze every little milliseconds out of the code I’m writing. Over the years I developed a sort of... more »
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Rating JRuby, Jython, and Groovy on the Java Platform
Three of the most prominent open source/Java languages are JRuby, a Java implementation of Ruby; Jython, a Java implementation of Python; and Groovy,... more »
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MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 3: Divide and Conquer
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This is the second post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” I changed my mind a little on how I will be... more »
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New Website for the Scala Language
The new website finally goes live! The existing content has been reorganized and updated, and finding the desired information should now be much... more »
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Cilk Wins Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Award
The PLDI paper "Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language" introduced an efficient form of thread-local deques to control scheduling of... more »
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What makes a good Test Engineer
This article describes what should do become a good software test engineer.
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REST vs WS-* :: A comparison of SOA stacks
The debate continues. Here's a stack comparison diagram I found on the SOA Wiki so that neutral parties can get a perspective.
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Pair programming. What researches say on the costs and benefits of the practice.
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Effect of Pair programming on defect rate, quality and costs. Scientifically valid research results only. Not all that rosy.
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Formal Language Processing in Scala, Part 3
This is the third part in a series of articles on formal language processing in Scala, focusing on parser combinators and language interpretation. In... more »
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Formal Language Processing in Scala, Part 2
This is the second part in a series of articles about parser combinators and implementing an interpreter in Scala. In this part I will focus on the... more »
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Project-Oriented SOA
The solution is to combine service lifecycle management, architecture, SOA governance, funding, and SOA metrics into a single comprehensive program.... more »
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Telling a good story - Rspec stories from the trenches
A collection of lessons and guidelines for writing Rspec Stories. With story examples taken from real systems and how they have been improved as I... more »
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Dzone.com and link sharing - Means or Ends ?
Is dzone much more than digg for developers ?
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REST presentation
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz offers up a recent 6MB PowerPoint presentation he did on the REST architectural style. I think it's pretty educational. I know that... more »
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3 Things Multicore Programmers Need
Summary of conversations with ~50 software organizations around the multicore programming challenges, and key criteria for a possible solution.
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