Archive for July, 2011

I have to move this gem to the top of the heap.  It’s been around the net for a few days now, but seeing this put into words carries a lot of weight for me.  This is a culture I can get behind.  I still don’t want to work for netflix though, so maybe there’s something missing in there.

Moving on from big corp culture, I want to focus on the agile team micro-culture.  Here is a good test to determine if you’re working as a group of individuals, or if you’re actually working as a team.

The launch parties for Java 7 continue.  You’ve never been to a party until you’ve launched a new version of a language!

I find that a good CRUD is often a solid foundation to build more complex apps on.  Writing this first establishes a lot of ground rules that can help keep code in line later on.  Here is yet another example of building a CRUD with some different tech.

If you work for a new company who isn’t providing a dataservice as it’s core, there’s a good chance you couldn’t produce a basic report with the data you have.  What I’m saying is, data that isn’t operational often is a second class citizen early at startups.  There is so much focus on producing features and putting them out that we often forget to capture bits of how it’s performing and how users are using our cool new tech.  It’s usually around the second round of funding when it becomes obvious that this data is necessary because potential investors are asking the questions.  Read on for some Hadoop goodness.

Here’s an article to get you started working with Titanium.  Since I believe all code is overhead, maintaining one codebase across multiple platforms is a huge efficiency.

Now on to the testing portion of our program.  Today we have a mix of a nice howto TDD example, thoughts on triaging bugs and finish off with the 25 worst software errors.  Quality is important, people.