I woke up this morning and I was Agile. We are all Agile now. Or we are gonna become Agile. Soon. No doubt about it. It is an order. And orders are not to be discussed, just executed.
The Enterprise goes Agile! With the elegance of the huge battleship being pulled across a desert between oceans [...]
Filed under: Humor, Opinions, Software Development by Daniel Pietraru
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Every once in a while I interview a new computer science graduate for a developer position. I prefer to ask the kind of questions that will let me see how they think about programming, if they think for themselves and if they are passionate about it.
Usually when I get to object oriented programming and I [...]
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Behind any programming language there is a creator or sometimes a small team. Each language has a story and a philosophy and each creator had a motivation, a problem to solve.
Programming languages influence and sometimes determine the way programmers solve problems and the way problems can be solved. They gain supporters, make enemies and cause [...]
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This tutorial shows how you can script a Scala application using the Java 6 scripting engines features (JSR 223 Scripting APIs). It also proves the level of power Scala gets from running on the JVM and from being able to use Java APIs. Along with a syntax that tries hard not to alienate Java and [...]
Filed under: Scala Language, Scripting by Daniel Pietraru
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