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It Pays to Do Community ...

I am incredibly honored to be the recipient of the INETA Community Champion Award – the annual recognition for those who contribute notably to the Microsoft...

0 replies - 979 views - 05/20/13 by Samidip Basu in Articles

Extreme Syntax

In his book Let Over Lambda, Doug Hoyte saysLisp is the result of taking syntax away, Perl is the result of taking syntax all the way.Lisp practically has...

0 replies - 1979 views - 05/18/13 by John Cook in Articles

The Ship Show: Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?

For episode 20, we tackle the topic of tooling proficiency on your release engineering, ops, and development teams, specifically through the lens of version...

0 replies - 2319 views - 05/16/13 by Paul Reed in Articles

How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 1)

I’ve been in the IT industry for almost 8 years working in 4 different companies. During this time I had a chance to work with a couple of dozens of...

4 replies - 13019 views - 05/10/13 by Yuriy Lopotun in Articles

OSS is Not Focused on Customer Service

Are you one of those developers who can’t get his/her boss to let you download/prototype/use a Really Cool™ software package that happens to be...

6 replies - 5077 views - 05/01/13 by Ted Neward in Articles

Is the Office Really the Best Place to Get Work Done?

Yahoo’s decision to ban working from home can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. Whatever the reasons might be, to me their decision sends out a...

0 replies - 6444 views - 04/28/13 by Oscar Berg in Articles

Dev of the Week: Lakshan Perera

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

2 replies - 7035 views - 04/24/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Pair Programming and a Grass-Roots Movement

Originally authored by Aaron Wagner I wanted to take a few minutes to share some thoughts and experiences about pair programming. I'm going to start from...

0 replies - 3536 views - 04/24/13 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

The Economics of Developer Recruitment and Training

The PHP jobs market is hot, very many people find it hard to recruit the skilled staff that they need to achieve the goals of their organization. I meet a wide...

1 replies - 2833 views - 04/23/13 by Lorna Mitchell in Articles

The Work From Home Question

Everyone is talking about the Yahoo! memo ending work from home for employees. When a company is in crisis, as Yahoo! is, actions like these, that don’t seem...

1 replies - 7002 views - 04/22/13 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

Code of Conduct for Communities

Lately, there's been a ton of discussion of seriously awful behavior by some dudes at PyCon. People have been fired. People have gotten upset. And there are...

0 replies - 4873 views - 04/22/13 by David Pollak in Articles

A Distributist View on Software Freedom

We are relatively familiar with Stallman's views on software freedom.  These views are deeply based on the idea that we can enumerate rights which...

0 replies - 3463 views - 04/22/13 by Chris Travers in Articles

Coding for the Changes You'll Have to Make Next Month

One of the most difficult parts of software development is adapting to change. It's a guarantee that the concepts, ideas, and possibly the point of the...

3 replies - 4689 views - 04/17/13 by Isaac Taylor in Articles

Requirements: Whose Job are They Anyway?

Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” The talk title is a reference to...

2 replies - 4041 views - 04/16/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

Ask DZ: What Do You Like to See in a Software Engineer Job Posting?

I've always been curious to see job descriptions when someone reaches out to me about software engineer (or related) positions. Most of them don't really...

0 replies - 1832 views - 04/02/13 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles