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Every production application I have been involved with has made use of a database. As a programmer, you don’t have to be a DBA, but just as with software development you need to adhere to a core set of database best practices.

His post made the rounds on the expected social news sites like programming.reddit and Hacker News, where I was amused to note that my blog is now being used as an example of silly REST dogma by REST skeptics in such discussions. From reading the Damien's post and the various comments in response, it seems clear that there are several misconceptions as to what constitutes REST and what its benefits are from a practical perspective.

The Khronos Group has released a new mile stone version of the OpenGL API: version 3.0, codename Long Peaks. While this is really good news, Khronos is still unable to communicate with the community.

This post covers some performance improvement tips by showing merits or demerits of various coding practices in PHP. While developing small websites or projects which are not meant to be maintained for longer period of time it's okey it we don't care about all this performance improvement and so on. But while we are into the development of some product or project which are going to be maintained for longer period of time then it is required that we take care of small things from the beginning. Initially we may feel that benefits are not drastic but when we have large amount of user base then all small and minor things matters. In PHP we have always so many ways to do things. During development of php as a language, developer community/team added up many functions and features (due to requests..!) in the language and some of them might be redundant, so we have sometimes many ways to solve one problem. Here sometimes due to not knowing what is the best way to solve the problem, we use the solution which we already know or we are more familiar with. Sometimes as a developer we create habit of doing something in particular way for always. Please read on to know whether you are already aware of this tips, which could improve performance of your php application. (Even if it is micro improvement it matters..!)

'Good' means having qualities that are desirable and distinguishing. From a developer's perspective, these qualities are both technical as well as non-technical. Here are some qualities that a developer should possess if he/she aims at becoming a 'good' developer.

rticles talk about code readability and provide tips to make life easier for fellow coders that read your code.

The SOAP stack for Web services was branded a failure this week by Tim Bray, a Sun Microsystems technologist and co-inventor of XML, who hailed the REST (Representational State Transfer) mechanism as a SOAP alternative.

In this article, I'll discuss a skill that should be part of any serious developer's tool kit: the ability to hack.

Why would somebody write bad code ? Ahh!! now we all know the reason.

Do you bleed agile? You may scrum, practice 14/21 day iterations, etc., but do you regularly demonstrate the end result of a iteration to the customer? Having the customer involved at the start, during and end of the iteration is critical to rolling out a successful and user-friendly product as noted by Michael Groner in this blog post.

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It’s also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.

We want Stack Overflow* users to be able to personalize their questions and answers with a small picture — even if they’ve never created an account on our site. Rather than build this functionality ourselves, we’ve decided to take advantage of Gravatars. Gravatars are small images associated with your email address.

I guess I'm a little late to the debate about "SOA 2.0". However, after going through the arguments, I will have go squarely against the petitioners. The petitioners would have everyone believe that SOA is a well defined idea that has worked wonders in practice. On the contrary, SOA is a term as nebulous as ever, and one in seven SOA endeavors end up in failure. The ideas and concepts behind SOA are just like its WS-NonexistentStandards underpinnings. That is it is careening towards a massive pileup.

In a new InfoQ interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler talks to Stefan Tilkov about the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository standard, the difference between an API such as Atom/Atom Publishing protocol and JCR, JCR's connection to REST, and Apache Sling, a new kind of Web framework.

Ian Skerrett, director of marketing at the Eclipse Foundation, has accused Sun of a lack of openness and using "backroom tactics" to push for a compromise between the OSGi standard and the Sun-sponsored Java Specification Request (JSR) 277.

I am not a system administrator. However, I am a software engineer, and responsible for administrating systems. As technical director, it is also my responsibility to create policies. Knowing that systems can be compromised, I know a policy needs to be in place for protection. Not allowing all engineers to run constantly as the root or super user on a Linux box is a good place to start. What happens though when I do not heed the warning of my own policy?

I had an amazing revelation at work last week - I actually like to write documentation.

The W3C recently released a working draft specification for HTML 5. In its current iteration, this is the worst specification I have ever read.