Recently I finished reading Tim Bray’s On Search series to enhance my own personal knowledge of search, since I frequently work on search applications.
I’ve also been following the various discussions and arguments on REST that seem to frequently flair up, although I’m lurking more for knowledge than contributing anything to what is being said.
It seems [...]

This idea has been bouncing around in my head for a while, but it’s only just now that I’ve managed to get it down onto paper in more than just a series of bullet points.
Management and Twitter face the same scaling problems.
This thought is directly related to agile practices.  We’ve all known the traditional management [...]

Today’s title is a play off of Stuart Halloway’s current series of blog posts titled Java.next.  Stuart is focusing his series on the set of languages that run on the JVM and are looking to replace (or if not replace, then gain dominance alongside) Java.
In the third part of the series, Dispatch, Stuart writes about [...]

The title of this post is taken verbatim from a post of the same name by Jay Fields.
Jay’s point is that it isn’t enough to go through the motions of being a developer. Part of being a developer is understanding the point of the motions you’re going through.  If you don’t understand why, you [...]

I’ve often read about paired programming, having heard its benefits extolled from Bob Martin when he gave my coworkers and I training, to reading about it at Hashrocket, where they “pair all the fucking time“.
It’s easy to find naysayers and it’s easy to rationalize why it might not work, the biggest reason being that it [...]