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My best friend and I—that is, my wife and I—are headed to Paris this Fall.  Unfortunately, no parlez français .  There's this awful rumo...

By attempting to improve your site's page performance, you can actually make it slower. There are numerous well developed techniques to ...

I've been taking a few of the online classes offered by Stanford, and I wanted to write down for posterity (read: me) the way I grab the...

The best summary of the available options I've found is the article, "Reliable Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Internet Explorer...

Maybe you're a PC going Mac, or just a Mac looking to save a few clicks, but in either case you could reasonably expect this PC-only fea...

While many of the thought leaders in the Agile community decry the inexorable march toward banal, brand-oriented adoption, entreating us to ...

The positronic sqrt program in rod logic is art. Damian Conway, Thoughtstream: " Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programmi...

Glen Vanderburg (@glv) recently reprised his talk "Real Software Engineering" as a keynote at Ruby Hoedown 2010. In the words of J...

The vitriol towards Microsoft has a long and graceless tradition with a lexicon sporting such inventive neologisms as the venerable "M$...

The central feature that distinguishes the REST architectural style from other network based styles is its emphasis on a uniform interfac...

I’ve recently become enamored with the multimethods system of Clojure, as well as its approach to polymorphism and “type” hierarchies in gen...

Wikis do this, as do blogs. Fast JavaScript in browsers is enabling a new generation of programmers to develop applications completely in ...

If you’ve not heard of RavenDB , it’s essentially a .NET-from-the-ground-up document database taking its design cues from CouchDB (and Mongo...

There’s no shortage of information on the “how” of the iPad.  Apple’s reification of Alan Kay’s Dynabook makes no sacrifices in terms of pro...

My first encounter of the Law of Demeter (LoD) was in the Meilir Page-Jones book, Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML . It is als...

A common saying in computing is that “Security is inversely proportional to usability”… or something like that.  As we critical examine the ...

Updates to the developer agreement in the new iPhone SDK restrict developers to using C, C++, or Objective-C to create their native iPhone a...

I watched an InfoQ video of Barbara Liskov at OOPSLA this evening.  At the end of her talk in a look at the challenges looking forward she ...

In functional languages, tuples are pretty much a requirement.  Of the functional languages I’ve used, including Erlang and T-SQL, tuples ar...

The first “homework assignment” of Dr. Erik Meijer’s functional programming course on Channel 9 was to write quicksort using C# (or VB) fun...