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Comic strips and contextual advertising
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Looking for #3 at Roblogfest Business/Technology ?
If you came here from the Mediafax article, this address is wrong. The Netuality you’re looking for is hosted by Hotnews.
Tagged as : AndEverythingElseSEO eye for the Tapestry guy
One of my previous customers has a Jakarta Tapestry [3.0.x] based site. The site is subscription-based, but it also has a public area – if you browse each and every link you should be able to view few thousand of [dynamically generated] pages. No SEO* consulting was involved in ...
QOTD : java.util.concurrent Kicks Ass and Takes Names
The java.util.concurrent package in JDK 1.5 is worth its weight in Internet porn.
From studdugie on JavaSwitching jobs
Tomorrow is my last day here as a Senior … whatever. I’ve done a lot of Java development (Eclipse plugins, SWT/JFace, various components for our proprietary framework) and even some DB work (Sap/Oracle/PostgreSQL migration, benchmarking, testing), spiced with a little bit of API design and a healthy ...
Agressive IT Antipattern : You’re Not Gonna Need It (when you’ll file for Chapter 11)
Nice excerpt from an Inc. article :
Future Beef’s real albatross, says Darrell Wilkes, was an expensive computer system that ran enormously complex software from J.D. Edwards. “We were pouring all this data in, but we could never get the data out,” says Wilkes, whose job, as the company ...Figure of the day : 350
Recently, an Indian poster on a Slashdot thread (‘India Outsourcers Find Back Door in Canada’) mentioned that:
Software Developers in India (including me) are paid 350 times the prevailing minimum wage in India. I thought it would be interesting to make a comparison with the same data in Europe: - in ...Nigerian QOTD
“Sir, on behalf of this Democratic Government of Nigeria, I apologize for any delay you might have encountered in receiving your money in the past.”
Ummm, well … apologies accepted.Tagged as : AndEverythingElseJunit : it’s not [only] about the API
Being extremely busy lately, I arrive a bit late at the Junit destruction feast. While it is probably true that some guys with a certain gift for writing blog articles may “come up with something far more useful in a couple of days”, I think the discussion is missing an ...
Portability is for canoes and system software …
… at least that’s what Mr. David Gristwood says in this (otherwise excellent) entry (‘21 Rules of Thumb – How Microsoft develops its Software’) on his MSDN weblog. Davis thinks that :
Even discounting the added development burden, with the addition of each additional platform the job of QA increases substantially. While ...