Programmer’s Paradox

If, like me, you’ve been seeing various blogs speak on MapReduce, you might, like me, wonder exactly what MapReduce is?
You can always turn to the wikipedia entry. But sometimes, you’d like to dig a little deeper. A good whitepaper might hit the spot. So here it is: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on [...]

I picked up Programming Erlang the other day. Kevin has talked me into learning it (along with about three other languages). I’ve only just begun to digest the book, but, seeing as it’s a Pragmatic Programmer’s title, it caused me to reflect on on the Pickaxe. Pickaxe is the Prag Prog book [...]

The world would be a better place if all programmers did one thing:
Signed their work.
I truly believe this.
You should too.
There’s a reason this is the the final tip in The Pragmatic Programmer. It’s so important a point that it ends the book. It was chosen to leave the lasting impression.
So exactly why is [...]

In my previous post I told you I wasn’t going to write about TDD (Test Driven Development) in the near future. Well, as you can tell from the title of this post, I lied. I fully blame Chuck. If he had not blogged about it, it wouldn’t have festered in the back [...]

I haven’t gotten around to writing an article on Test Driven Development yet.  It seems that almost all programmers who write blogs do at some point.  Well, perhaps I won’t need to now, because Chuck over at nothing happens has already written exactly what I would have:
I think the [...]