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5 Strategies for Making Money with the Cloud
Everybody is hearing Cloud Computing on the television now. Operators will store your contacts in the Cloud. Hosting companies will host your website in the Cloud. Others will store ...
What’s in a name : Reason behind naming of few great projects
This is in conitunuation of my previous post where i have listed the reason behind naming of several great projects.I have found some more languages , product and organization . Why ...
Herding Apache Pig – using Pig with Perl and Python
The past week or so we got some new data that we had to process quickly . There are quite a few technologies out there to quickly churn map/reduce jobs on Hadoop (Cascading, Hive, Crunch, ...
Promises and Deferred objects in jQuery and AngularJS
Series of articles about futures/promises without JavaScript would not be complete. Futures (more commonly named promises in JS land) are ubiquitous in JavaScript to the point where ...
5 Techniques to Get the Most Out of Your Software Team
Congrats! You have identified a high-performing, top-notch software development team to design and build your product. (If you are still looking for a team read this.) Want to know ...
Fragmented projects and overcommitted people
In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more articles of this kind printed in the major german press. Psychologists ...
Why Open Source Software?
I decided to look at something everyone thinks we know well, Open Source Software (OSS) and see what I discover. The child in me said; “Do it”. The Strange and Not-So-Strange ...
What’s in a name : Reason behind naming of few great projects
Ever wondered about how the project , framework or product names are coined ? Why the particular name , what does it mean.Why name hibernate or hadoop or mule. Whenever i came across ...
Enterprisey Developers, Acronyms, and Discrimination
Over the past few years my clientele shifted from a mix of mostly mid-market companies and a few startups to almost entirely startups, and that shift has resulted in a wider palette ...
A case for putting off documentation until the end
I have a bad habit of putting off documenting my code as long as possible; it’s often my last task before I submit a pull request. And every time I’m slogging through hundreds ...
