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It seems to defy all logic, but the best programmers have two usually undesirable traits: They’re lazy and dumb. That’s the point of a classic post by web developer and blogger Philipp Lenssen that I ...

Behavior-driven development (BDD) and keywords are both widely used techniques to facilitate automated testing. The approaches are similar in that tests can be written in a business-readable, ...

Most of the advice on meetings concerns how to run them. But what about when you’re attending the meeting rather than running it, and the meeting is endless or boring? Certainly, it can help to stay ...

Amazon made headlines recently with its new patent for an anticipatory shipping model. The model predicts what users would likely buy, when they would buy it, and where they would need it. Amazon ...

As much as automation and routine can streamline your work, all projects that have more than a trivial degree of complexity will have situations where someone needs to identify and implement a ...

Collaboration is a key part of how agile teams work. Quite often, to work effectively to meet commitments in a self-organizing, cross-functional team, you need to be creative as well. While teams can ...

PHP and Java are both languages ranked in the Top 10 in the TIOBE index. In this article, we compare the two languages. PHP is an interpreted language. The Zend Engine that is bundled with the PHP ...

A set of vertices with each vertex having zero or more labels and zero or more properties/attributes. A set of edges with each edge being directed from one vertex to another vertex. Each edge has zero ...

As technology advances at an exponential rate, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in software quality assurance (SQA) has become increasingly prominent. From automating mundane tasks to ...

In the Linux operating system, unlike with virtual machines, each Docker container does not use a complete operating system kernel; multiple Docker containers can share the same one. One of the ...

A data dictionary is the information and metadata (The metadata includes database name, table name, column data type, and access privileges) about the data objects themselves. The data dictionary ...