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Most of the advice on meetings concerns how to run them. But what about when you’re attending the meeting rather than running it, and the meeting is endless or boring? Certainly, it can help to stay ...

It seems to defy all logic, but the best programmers have two usually undesirable traits: They’re lazy and dumb. That’s the point of a classic post by web developer and blogger Philipp Lenssen that I ...

Behavior-driven development (BDD) and keywords are both widely used techniques to facilitate automated testing. The approaches are similar in that tests can be written in a business-readable, ...

Collaboration is a key part of how agile teams work. Quite often, to work effectively to meet commitments in a self-organizing, cross-functional team, you need to be creative as well. While teams can ...

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Amazon made headlines recently with its new patent for an anticipatory shipping model. The model predicts what users would likely buy, when they would buy it, and where they would need it. Amazon ...

Java is one of the top programming languages. One of the choices Java developers often have to make is the Java version to install. The choice becomes complicated due to the multitude of ...

From time to time, large mission-critical data systems require significant upgrades, or even outright replacement—imagine changing ERP or financial system vendors ...

Scrum, being a process framework, has little to say about team roles aside from there being a self-organizing and cross-functional development team, a product owner, and a ScrumMaster. But in reality, ...

As much as automation and routine can streamline your work, all projects that have more than a trivial degree of complexity will have situations where someone needs to identify and implement a ...

MySQL makes use of a component called the storage engine to determine the type of data structures it uses for storing data. To the surprise of some, MySQL doesn’t store data in tables, per se. A table ...