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Web Tech Skills PHP, Java, in High Demand

A new report released by the job site Elance shows a growth in tech contractor hiring, up 46% from this time last year on Elance.com.  After job losses in IT...

0 replies - 3290 views - 10/15/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Author Interview: Simone Chiaretta & Keyvan Nayyeri on ASP.NET MVC 1.0

DZone recently had a chance to sit down with Simone Chiaretta and Keyvan Nayyeri, authors of Wrox' Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and DZone's ASP.NET MVC 1.0...

0 replies - 1895 views - 09/09/09 by alashcraft in Articles

AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition

Back in December 2007, Simone published an online survey about the usage of AJAX technologies among the .NET developers and after a short while, shared its...

2 replies - 980 views - 06/03/09 by keyvan in News

How Do We Measure Maturity In Software?

When I saw a post by Jeffery Palermo entitled “Is Classic WebForms More Mature Than ASP.NET MVC?” I immediately thought “Aha! I know exactly what he...

0 replies - 1100 views - 02/04/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Site Stats For All To See - Input Wanted

While working on a blog there should be time for little frivolities. Small additions that are not necessarily important but are fun to implement. Not too long...

0 replies - 543 views - 01/15/09 by Niels Matthijs in News

Iterative Design - Going Round In Circles

I've been redesigning my blog for a while now and one thing in particular struck me as quite remarkable. Since I first launched this blog a year ago a lot of...

0 replies - 594 views - 01/14/09 by Niels Matthijs in News

2008: A Developer's Retrospective

 I have been making New Year's resolutions for a long, long time. I don’t even remember when I actually started making them either. Yes, it has been so...

3 replies - 6400 views - 12/16/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Discussion: Why Web Designers Often Use PHP Over ASP.NET?

Some time ago my colleague asked me "I like to read blogs about webdesign, but why are they mostly PHP-oriented?". Huh, really, why? Ihaven't thought...

4 replies - 2938 views - 12/11/08 by dzovan in News

Specialize In Something Relevant

If you read my blog entry on Language Specialization you might have concluded that I prefer generalists. If, in our industry, generalists were what the...

1 replies - 5826 views - 11/20/08 by Jay Fields in News

Possibly The Best Way To Be A Great Programmer: Be Brain-Healthy!!

I was watching a television show on PBS (viewer-sponsored educational public broadcasting) about brain health. The speaker was Daniel G. Amen, author of the...

6 replies - 7987 views - 10/28/08 by Jon Davis in News

Killing Blog Comments - The Eradication Of Interaction

I blogged about the illusive social facade of web 2.0 before, things seem to be getting worse still. In a long awaited sign of life update, Roger Johansson...

0 replies - 1244 views - 09/22/08 by Niels Matthijs in News