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"Strive for winning the small battles, if you can." Interesting. I am no entrepreneur but lead developers at a large corp. My scheme is to pick the battles. Usually not the small o…

I understand that most of the performance boost comes from the the invokedynamic optimization, not from anything special inside JRuby. So, does this mean we can expect the same goo…

He is missing the point that mostly, people set themselves up for getting feedback, or not. Especially in a leadership position, one can actively create a feedback culture or a "ye…

Nice list! That is pretty much what I am expecting of myself and other more senior developers. I guess, I am not a super good "drill" sergeant, though. All I can do is leading by e…

I wish I knew how the Googles and Facebooks hire a crowd of junior programmers and have them do these amazing things. I am in the 5th year of leading development teams and have mor…

I disagree to reduce programmers to geeks that only have fun when there is a ton of new technology and a fancy feature that only they like. Most people I've worked with have fun wh…

Well, no organization should complain too loud if it is not valueing the IT department as much as it does its profit centers. The situation in the most companies is that IT is trim…

One of the better HTML5 walkthroughs. I like that he emphasizes almost seamless transition from XHTML. That's the key point, not all the new features! I did not know about the Java…

I use Ruby a lot and love it! But one should be fair and take into account that it has had much more time maturing. From what I can tell, it is plateauing right now. On a high leve…

I am a bit suprised to not see TDD or any of its siblings being pulled into the discussion. To me, the better someone is doing TD, the better the code communicates because TDD make…