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Recent Software Development Posts of Interest – Early June 2012

There has recently been a large number of posts on some of my favorite topics and I summarize and reference a few of them here.

Why Developers Should Blog

I devoted a post to why I believe more software developers should write blogs. Ron Gross’s post… Continue reading

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My Most Popular 2011 Blog Posts

In this post, I briefly summarize my “eight” most popular “2011” posts (six actually posted in 2011 and two posted in late 2010). The two common themes of these posts seem to be broad applicability and future focus. I expected a few of these posts to d… Continue reading

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Personal Lessons Learned from The Blogger Outage

For nearly 24 hours, Blogger was in read-only mode. This period, combined with the advertised lock out for the maintenance that led to the corrupted data problem, has been frustrating for me as well as for numerous other Blogger users. In this post, I … Continue reading

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On the Value of Reading Blog Comments

A link to Andy Lester’s Perlbuzz post Slipping away from the Perl community is currently featured on reddit Programming. Although I generally try to minimize my exposure to Perl, I find this post and its reddit reference interesting for several reasons… Continue reading

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Inspired by Actual Events: My Blog’s New Name

I began writing this blog in October 2007 and it has been called “Dustin’s Software Development Cogitations and Speculations” from the beginning. The name has definitely reflected a primary purpose for this blog: to cogitate and speculate on various so… Continue reading

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My Ten Most Popular 2010 Blog Posts

One of my annual traditions with this blog is to post a summary of my top ten blog posts of the year in terms of “hits” on the blog post. A post with more hits isn’t necessarily better than a post with fewer hits, but the former certainly gets more att… Continue reading

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My Personal Blog Policies

The recent posting of the The Oracle Social Media Participation Policy on Justin Kestelyn’s (Oracle Technology Network Editor in Chief) blog has caused me to reevaluate my own personal and previously unwritten policies that affect how and what I write … Continue reading

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