A collection of practical programming wisdom covering code design, testing, dependencies, and development processes for better software engineering.
A CTO's perspective on Microsoft's vNEXT platform, analyzing its impact on development approaches and future .NET frameworks.
Debunks the myth that open source software is inherently insecure, comparing it to proprietary alternatives and explaining its security advantages.
A KDE developer shares his excitement and presentation schedule for the Akademy 2014 conference, focusing on community and technology.
A speaker's personal reflections on attending and presenting at the Laracon EU conference in Amsterdam, covering their talk and community observations.
A developer explains why avoiding major code changes on Fridays prevents weekend production bugs and burnout, advocating for refactoring and R&D instead.
A former government employee compares bureaucratic culture at a federal agency with the trust-based, developer-happy environment at GitHub.
Author announces their first public presentation on building mobile apps with Xamarin Forms at SQLSaturday #341 in Oporto.
A report on the 2014 scikit-learn developer sprint in Paris, covering participants, venues, achievements, and sponsors.
A critique of superficial agile adoption, proposing a core heuristic: true agility is the internal ability to change how a team works.
Explains the programming placeholder terms 'foobar', 'foo', and 'bar', and encourages their use in collaborative coding and whiteboard sessions.
A personal account of securing a tech internship at iHub, focusing on the application process and the project that sparked interest.
A critique of Go's verbose error handling patterns, comparing them to more concise assembly language approaches.
A guide to evaluating the health and sustainability of open source projects before adopting them, covering metrics like activity, community, and documentation.
A practical guide to simplifying Python logging, focusing on essential code snippets for libraries and applications.
A developer's perspective on using Stack Overflow downtime as an opportunity to improve problem-solving skills and avoid over-reliance on copy-pasting code.
A tutorial on using Visual Studio Online's REST API to retrieve and filter work item discussion history, including code examples.
The author shares the behind-the-scenes process of writing 'The Hacker's Guide to Python', focusing on practical Python development insights from OpenStack experience.
A historical overview of DevOps, tracing its evolution from 1980s mainframes to modern practices, focusing on cultural challenges.
A developer discusses why they included a 'respect' section in their open-source project's contributor guidelines, focusing on culture and security.
