Since there are dozens of posts on becoming a better developer, but no single post with all the advice you need, perhaps, you'll find this short guide useful.
91 Ways to Become an Even Greater Developer
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Comono v0.9.0 Released
Posted November 3rd, 2008 by administratorWe are pleased to announce the relase of 0.9.0 of Commons Framework. Offically going forward this project has been renamed to "Comono". This release includes updated samples and revised logging apart from pacakage name changes reflectiving comono. Your feedback is appreciated.
Implementing a logger in CSharp
Posted October 24th, 2008 by administrator
This tutorial explains how to implement a simple logger in C#.
Logging Need
Have you ever ran into a situation where you want to log messages in order to debug a program. There are many logging packages/framework available but there always a learning curve involved with setup and usage. So this simplified yet featurefull logger is all you might need.
4 Types of Interview Questions for Software Engineers
Posted June 5th, 2008 by administrator
Are you lately going through the any job interviews or plan to take on, this post might be for you. There have been times where for sure we all have gone through this process once or more because of layoff, better prospects, life events etc. But every time the interview is different.
10 Object Oriented Design Principles
Posted May 29th, 2008 by administrator
Every now and then when I review code, I see developers write code that does not conform to the basis OO design principles and this eventually make it difficult to understand, maintain, extend blah blah..... Basically its just keeps on adding a layer of un-necessary complexity that you have to deal with. So what do you do? I guess you end-up refactoring the code( Did I said, I love refactoring?
Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care
This post explores new trends that seem to be in use these days about web usability.
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How to get the Temp Directory Path in Java?
Posted April 1st, 2008 by administrator
The path to the temp directory in Java can be retreived via the sytem property as mentioned below:
System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
Find the Calling Class
Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
Here is a simple snippet to find out the calling Java Class.
Class.forName(new Throwable().getStackTrace()[2].getClassName()));
How to ruin your website in 10 easy steps
A lot of people give suggestions on how to improve your website or blog. Whether it is via SEO or design suggestions. Not many tell you what is going to destroy your website. I may be a little extreme but there are several pet peeves (as do many in the web design world) have that can truly turn your site from great to lame. There may be a couple of these that are straight forward but when dealing with clients it can become very obvious that some of their ideas on how a website should function are modeled after MySpace and the ilk.
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SearchStatus: A Search Extension for Firefox and Mozilla
For every site you visit using, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo!
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