Q&A on SAVARA

We spoke with Gary Brown and Steve Ross-Talbot to get their ideas about architectural agility and how savara fits in.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Practical Unit Testing

I was reading Howard's post today on his crisis of faith with respect to unit testing and it launched an interesting conversation with a colleague. I'm a unit...

6 replies - 4780 views - 02/22/08 by Alex Miller in News

Overcoming Procrastination

The dictionary defines "procrastination" as "to put off till another day or time; defer; delay." I discovered this while procrastinating,...

1 replies - 854 views - 02/20/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

7 Habits of Highly Effective Freelance Programmers

I have developed these based on my freelancing experience. Though I have discontinued freelancing, but would like to share my practices with you. These are...

3 replies - 24664 views - 02/18/08 by Sunil Bhatia in News

NYTimes "Dumb and Dumber" Americans - Duh... what about develoeprs?

One of this week's most emailed stories at The New York Times is "Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?" Here's a brief excerpt from...

6 replies - 1779 views - 02/18/08 by Rick Ross in News

Dating and HTTP Response Codes

Men don't understand women, or so my wife tells me when I'm actually listening. Women are even harder for most geeks for grok. So when I was going through...

0 replies - 1765 views - 02/05/08 by Kevin Chu in News

Programming Flat on My Back (Lumbar Disc Hernia)

After several months of constant pain in my back, I finally decided to get scans made of my spine. Turns out I have a double lumbar disc hernia (L4-L5 left and...

2 replies - 2656 views - 02/04/08 by Geert Bevin in News

What If... DZone had a Reality TV series???

What if there was a reality TV show that featured everyday programmers/software developers like you and me? It could give the rest of the world a glimpse...

5 replies - 2514 views - 01/25/08 by Jim Bethancourt in News