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My first professional work as a software developer was writing Clipper code. Clipper was a compiler for dBASE code with object-oriented exte...

I am sometimes asked about my position on code comments, and, like most things, I have strong opinions about it. Two kinds of comments exist...

Disclaimer: I'm a hard-core lover of Apple products; between my wife & I, we own 4 Macs. However, I also hate Apple's stance as a company on lots of topics. In fact, I would probably never use their products if they weren't so damn good. I'm just disclaim

Once you write a book, you become really immersed in the subject matter. After it's off to the publisher, you can't turn off your interest in the subject. Consequently, after The Productive Programmer came out, I continue to find new ways to make myself m

It is with great pleasure that I welcome one of my ThoughtWorks colleagues, Tiffany Lentz , to the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour this weekend in Tampa. She did the Seattle show last year to great feedback, and now she's joining the tour as a semi-regular spea

Greater Florida Software Symposium is April 16 - 18, 2010 in Tampa, FL. This event, hosted by No Fluff Just Stuff, is for alpha geek Java platform developers! There are no intro sessions here.

One of the recommendations I frequently give at conferences when asked about "What books are you reading" is to get out of the purely technical realm often so that you can communicate more effectively with the other humanoids. One of the common recommenda

One of my former coworkers & I used to spend hours talking about how to set up the best individualized personal information manager. We used to call those conversations productivity porn , not realizing that someone would come along an formalize that term

This is part three in an exploration of why Twitter makes sense, highlighting its use as a legitimate tool for connections and idea generation. The first article is under Twitter Matters: Keeping Up with Weak Social Links and the second is under Twitter M

This is part two in an exploration of why Twitter makes sense, highlighting its use as a legitimate tool for connections and idea generation. The first article appears as Twitter Matters: Keeping Up with Weak Social Links . The 140 character limit is perh