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With a nod to John Lam and Shawn Wildermuth for the inspiration, here is a rundown of the things I use on a daily basis to develop software. This includes hardware, software and online resources.

This question comes up more times in more blogs than anyone is willing to admit. Now Water & Stone have come out with a free survey that makes deciding on which CMS is top dog easier. It also makes for a good recipe for success

Too often when digesting Social Media blogs, I read the same crap about how to take advantage of basic Social Media tools and methods to promote yourself or company. It's all the same crap about setting up a "listening post" by populating your google reader with tons of blog feeds about social media or using Twitter search tools like Summize or blog search tools like Technorai or just a good "advanced" and narrowed Google search to find where people are either talking about your brand or your niche.

Boring and opinionated mini review of EuroPython 2008.

From Harvard Business Review via Business Week: IT is bureaucratic and frustrating—and absolutely necessary. But there are things companies can do to change this.

Most services needed to develop, manage, and deploy a website are free, except for hosting perhaps. Version control, project management, bug tracking — all that a developer or a small team might need is online for $0, thanks to some far-sighted providers.

Adoption and interest for Distributed Version Control Systems is constantly rising. InfoQ introduces the concept of DVCS and looks at 3 actors in the area: git, Mercurial and Bazaar.

REST or WS-*? The debate which will never end. While REST is taking the lead gradually, the community see many drawbacks in using the traditional WS-*. The complexity and overhead in using WS-*, REST simplicity and how they fit the web architecture are always the main points of the argument. REST is simple, that is it. It has nothing to deal with except three things: Resources, Verbs and URIs. The fact that it's just makes use of the HTTP standards to accomplish all the needed operations on the resources is really interesting.

WordPress 2.5 is out with tons of sexy new features and a super slick layout. I was hesitant even though it looked really hot. Until I found probably the best WordPress Plugin ever created called “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade”.

I have been doing some research on build tools this last week, and was hoping some new articles would crop up that were related so I could accomplish two things at once, write my weekly review and learn about new tools, unfortunately that didn't happen.

I spend way too much time reading blogs, surfing PHP and web development articles online. I resolve to cut back but things just sneak back into my reader somehow, and believe me dzone doesn't help. But I've came up with a way to justify all that time, I call it research.

Creating an ideal workplace for software developers

I have been introduced to many challenges to choose between the consulting and fulltime positions when i moved to USA from Germany. I was with product development companies all the while and its little strange for me the “idea” of consulting. I did quite a bit of research on different companies and what kind of job should i choose. For the rest of my blog, i do not want to take any of the company names. I hope that you would be able to relate what i am saying to your own experiences. I would be glad to hear more experiences and your views.

Google Interview Questions Part 8 - Some more intresting questions

During the last few years, there has been wide-ranging discussion about adding closures to the Java language, either as part of Java SE 7, or in some future, unspecified release. There have been proposals (BGGA, CICE, FCM) and talk of a consensus. One way to look at the available proposals is to consider the impact on Java as a language: whether it's possible to undergo fundamental change while still preserving the "Feel of Java".

Menu is the tool thought which user perceives and benefits information in a website. There are different types and can be placed in different areas of a page. Depending on the position, they can have different types of implementations and styles. Here are some.