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Dennis Ritchie Day

In the post Dennis Ritchie Day, Tim O’Reilly “declares this Sunday, October 30 to be Dennis Ritchie Day!” O’Reilly acknowledges that “I don’t have the convening power of a Governor Brown” (who declared Sunday, October 16, as Steve Jobs Day), but call… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2011: The Diabolical Developer (Redux)

There was an hour between sessions before the beginning of Martijn Verburg’s “The Diabolical Developer (Redux)” (25303) in Divisidero in Parc 55 Hotel. I wanted to attend this presentation for three reasons: the abstract appealed to me, I had read good… Continue reading

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Software Development Posts of Interest – 2 July 2011

There have been numerous blog posts on software development that I have found to be well worth the time invested in reading them in recent weeks. In this post, I summarize and link to some of these. Topics include Oracle’s Java 7 kick-off, Scala, Devop… Continue reading

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Third Set of Movie Quotes Applied to Software Development

This is my third post covering application of popular movie quotes to software development situations after posting Classic Movie Quotes Applied to Software Development and More Movies Quotes Applied to Software Development. In this post, I look at how… Continue reading

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Software Development Posts of Interest – 21 June 2011

This post is a summary of some recent articles and posts related to software development that I have found to be interesting. They cover computer science as a career, the history of programming, the good and bad of Hibernate, mobile apps popularity rel… Continue reading

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Early June 2011 Software Development Posts of Interest

This post summarizes some blog posts that I have found very interesting in the past week (posts may be older than this, but I saw them in the past week). The topics covered are fairly diverse.

Learning Groovy

I like Vasanth Dharmaraj’s post Learning… Continue reading

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Finding Humor in Software Development, Part I

I have run across a few posts recently that I have found funny. However, in finding amusement in these, I must admit some very small degree of personal nerdiness. I don’t think, for example, that my wife would find these to be as amusing as I did. With… Continue reading

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Software Development Posts of Interest – 18 May 2011

I use this post to reference several posts and blogs I have found interesting in recent days and to explain what about them interests me. The posts cover topics such as Oracle’s new licensing terms for JRockit JVM, Oracle’s proposals for changes to the… Continue reading

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Software Development Posts of Interest – 10 May 2011

In this post, I reference and briefly summarize some of the posts I have found worth a closer look in recent days and weeks. Topics covered by these posts include professional software development, Groovy, Java, and Scala.

Software Development is Not… 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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