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31st July 2012 Karol Grecki in Software Development

How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code
- Building QuickBooks: How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code
  
  Continuous integration and delivery based on automated software configuration management are the keys for developing a major retail product. Intuit Inc. was founded in 1983 as the publisher of Quicken, an MS-DOS financial-management system for individuals. Quicken's success led to a host of follow-up products, including QuickBooks, which was launched in 1992 and quickly became the industry's top small-business accounting solution.
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30th July 2012 Karol Grecki in Software Development

What went wrong with OAuth2
- OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell
  
  They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well, that's OAuth 2.0. Last month I reached the painful conclusion that I can no longer be associated with the OAuth 2.0 standard. I resigned my role as lead author and editor, withdraw my name from the specification, and left the working group.
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- Peter Johnson
  Wow, reflective, I think he was crying when he wrote this...
  
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- Peter Johnson
  Any developer will tell you OAuth2 is a massive pain to implement, but I always assumed that it would pay off in the end as more and more sites moved to the new standard. It seems now that only a limited amount of sites have moved to OAuth2 (most notably Facebook/Twitter), while other sites seem to be sticking to v1. This criticism may discourage more organizations from moving to v2...
  
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- Rowan Manning
  Yeah I read this the other day – interesting article, a shame though
  
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13th July 2012 Fabrizio Moscon in Php

Composer, dependency resolver for #PHP

http://nelm.io/blog/2011/12/composer-part-1-what-why/

I think this was something missing from the PHP world that now starts to be used on many open source and enterprise projects. I like the support on namespaces and the library restriction on project which PEAR was not able to provide.
Do you think this will help developers including third parties libraries or will it just increase the reinventing the wheel syndrome?
- Composer: Part 1 - What & Why | Nelmio Blog
  
  You may have heard about Composer and Packagist lately. In short, Composer is a new package manager for PHP libraries. Quite a few people have been complaining about the lack of information, or just seemed confused as to what it was, or why the hell we would do such a thing.
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13th July 2012 Linus Norton in Php, Programming

http://nikic.github.com/2012/07/10/What-PHP-5-5-might-look-like.html
- What PHP 5.5 might look like
  
  PHP 5.4 was released just four months ago, so it probably is a bit too early to look at the next PHP version. Still I'd like to give all the people who aren't following the internals mailing list a small sneak peak at what PHP 5.5 might look like.
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- Rowan Manning
  Getters and setters look awesome, and it's great to see things like list comprehensions coming into PHP
  
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12th July 2012 Karol Grecki in Mysql

Storing 4 byte utf8 characters in MySQL

http://mzsanford.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/mysql-and-unicode/
- MySQL and Unicode
  
  I used MySQL for a great many projects over the years with the assumption that a charset of utf8 and a collation of utf8_unicode_ci was going to support all of UTF-8 and that was all I need to do. I was sorely mistaken but there was no point in writing until now, because MySQL 5.5 has finally helped rectify the issue.
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26th June 2012 Karol Grecki in Education & Employability

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates/132591/
- A Conversation With Bill Gates - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
  Bill Gates never finished college, but he is one of the single most powerful figures shaping higher education today. That influence comes through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, perhaps the world's richest philanthropy, which he co-chairs and which has made education one of its key missions.
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25th June 2012 Karol Grecki in Agile, Software Development

http://vimeo.com/43612884
- Gojko Adzic - BDD: Busting the myths
  
  The ideas behind BDD, Specification by Example and Agile acceptance testing are deceivingly simple, but have proved far from easy to implement. Yet most of the complaints online come from misunderstood ideas which lead to misguided attempts.
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25th June 2012 Rowan Manning in Javascript, Node Js

Node.js version 0.8.0 has been released! Much faster and more stable, as well as plenty of features. http://t.co/Sq0a0nbU
- Node v0.8.0
  
  I am thrilled to announce the arrival of a new stable version of Node.js. Compared with the v0.6 releases of Node, this release brings significant improvements in many key performance metrics, as well as cleanup in several core APIs, and the addition of new debugging features.
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- Phil Booth
  Without doubt, the single most interesting feature to me is the Cluster module:
  
  http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html
  
  There should be a few haters changing their opinions when they get wind of that particular item of awesomeness! :)
  
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- Rowan Manning
  Really cool, eh? Looking forward to having a play!
  
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- Linus Norton
  Those are some pretty significant performance improvements
  
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- Rowan Manning
  Did you check out clustering too, Linus? Great addition, does that satisfy you on the single thread argument?
  
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- Linus Norton
  Actually it does. I hadn't seen this before (was it part of 0.6?) but it looks like a nice solution. I hope they've made sure things like session management lock correctly.
  
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15th June 2012 Tom Michaelis in Css, Html, Javascript, Web Design, Web-browsers

About time! If one browser increases development time so much, why not charge its users more.

#web-design #javascript #css #html #web-browsers #WC3 #internet-explorer
- Internet Explorer 7 'tax' a first
  
  The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world's first "tax" on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser. Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm's site. Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".
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- Tancredi Trugenberger
  It's absolutely brilliant.
  I think it's a fairly lean approach to cross-browser support, and it should be implemented more often :)
  
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7th June 2012 Neel Upadhyaya in Agile, Software Design, Domain Driven Design

Eric Evans gives a fascinating talk about one of agile's biggest casualties: design. A must watch for anyone using the #agile methodology
- Eric Evans: Folding Design into an Agile Process | Domain-Driven Design Community
  
  This talk was originally presented by Eric Evans at QCon London 2010. The recording is made during a meetup of DDD-NYC SIG in May of 2010. Abstract After a decade of heavy process, the Agile revolution of the late '90s threw off the dead hand of big upfront design.
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- Neel Upadhyaya
  Here's a link to the process he discusses
  http://www.domainlanguage.com/ddd/whirlpool/Domain_Language_Model_Exploration_Whirlpool_v2010-06-19.pdf
  
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