Just Let Me Code!
Managing the complexity of development toolchains -- from SCM, to the build tools, to the testing, to the deployment stack -- now so overwhelms the developer experience, it's hard to get any real programming done. - Development Tools
Articles
Coding for High-DPI Displays in Windows
Deliver crisp text and images on all Windows monitors, regardless of settings. - .NET
Pike Programming Language
A C-like language with all the OO trimmings, garbage collection, strong data types, and excellent string processing makes a powerful tool for Web programming. - Open Source
Programming for High-Res Displays in Windows
Deliver software containing crisp text and sharp images on multiple displays - .NET
Writing Build Scripts With Gradle
Even simple build scripts show the power and flexibility of the emerging new build tool for JVM projects. - JVM Languages
Pernicious Scrum Anti-Patterns
It is easy to lose track of Scrum principles and best practices. Inevitably, problems will then arise that will be perceived incorrectly as failures of Agile or Scrum itself. Do these Scrum anti-patterns affect your development process? - Design
What Makes a Good Check-in?
Few organizations have strong opinions and articulated policies on what a check-in should consist of. As long as the check-in is more or less usable in a code review, it's generally considered good enough. We can do better than this by making the contents of check-ins truly useful additions to the development process. - Design
Why Build Your Java Projects with Gradle Rather than Ant or Maven?
The default build tool for Android (and the new star of build tools on the JVM) is designed to ease scripting of complex, multi-language builds. Should you change to it, though, if you're using Ant or Maven? - JVM Languages
Memory Leaks in iOS 7
iOS Networking APIs are leaking memory. The good news: You can stop them. - Design
Events of Interest
July 28-29. Minneapolis, MN. GR8Conf US 2014
July 28-August 1. Orlando, FL. Agile2014 Orlando
August 7-8, San Francisco, CA. Distill 2014
August 20-22. Chicago, IL. CloudOpen North America
September 7-12. Bellevue, WA. CppCon
September 23-24. San Francisco, CA. Designers of Things Conference
October 9-10. Palo Alto, CA. Code Stars Summit
October 11-12. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
November 3-5. San Francisco, CA. QCon
November 4-5. London, England. Code Mesh Conference
November 17-21. Budapest, Hungary. ApacheCon Europe
Videos of Past Events
September 2013. JavaOne
September 2013. SpringOne 2GX
June 2013. JAXConf 2013
June 2013. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference
May 2013. Google I/O
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
October 2012. JAXLondon 2012
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
