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Everything I needed to know about taking on software projects. "Prepare to throw one away". The insights from reading this book years ago certainly helped me navigate project manag…

He's not 'one of us'?

Good place to be from. Sounds like the noob chose to live at 6th and Market. That's where you go after you lose that brogrammer edge, not when you move here to find your fortune. I…

65. started programming when I was 20 years old.

The WELL, the online community which started out life more than 20 years ago as the Whole Earth Lectronic Link, has been sold to a company founded by some of its long-time users.

Tips for building a cross platform Java and GWT library.

The Itemscript JSON Library has a common API for standard Java and the GWT Java environment. It includes a RESTful in-memory JSON database usable in either environment, where value…

he makes some excellent points, or should I say hypothoses? drop 25% of the features to reduce complexity by half. I suppose this is why templates and re-usable code appeal to mana…

Oakland, California

I remember when you asked that question at google i/o. We're using gwt for a reference implementation of itemscript, an open source json schema project. It does take some time to g…

the programming contest will get easier as higher level abstractions hide the tricky stuff, but the idea contest will also be liberated. Imagine a world where you could for example…