Measuring Productivity of Individual Programmers

Measuring Productivity of Individual Programmers

Software engineering studies normally measure productivity in terms of time to complete a specific task, or sometimes in terms of lines of code per effort-hour, staff-month, or some other measure of effort. Regardless of how you choose to measure productivity, there will be issues.

Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely « Blog – Stack Exchange

Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely « Blog – Stack Exchange:

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Introduction to the Yii Framework | Larry Ullman

Introduction to the Yii Framework | Larry Ullman: "In 2009, I had three decent-size Web sites to develop, so I thought I might try using a PHP framework for the first time, instead of coding everything from scratch. I’ve used Ruby on Rails for Web development before, so I’m comfortable with frameworks and the MVC architecture, but I wanted to educate myself on PHP frameworks. After researching a handful of frameworks, and after an unsatisfying attempt to use Zend Framework, I finally settled on, and really came to appreciate the Yii Framework. At the time, the Yii Framework was still quite new, and there are still bugs to be worked out (for the more advanced stuff), but Yii works so well that it’s very easy to use. In this first of several posts on the Yii Framework, I just discuss setting up and testing Yii."

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Spring Roo and WebFlow (by Ken Rimple, Co-author, Spring Roo in Action) | Java.net

Spring Roo and WebFlow (by Ken Rimple, Co-author, Spring Roo in Action) | Java.net
How many times have you met with your end-users, figured out the navigational steps for a highly procedural web application, coded it, and found out it was just plain wrong? Every time? If you're like us, you've re-written HTML links, menus, redirects, forward instructions and controller methods too many times to count. Wouldn't your navigation code be less brittle if you could capture those rules in a descriptive language that you could change at will? Enter Spring Web Flow. 

Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - Microsoft Press - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Hello, Kraig Brockschmidt here. To help celebrate //build/, I’m delighted to announce the completion of Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript!
You can download the ebook in PDF format here: http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=270056 (17.9 MB)
EPUB format is here: http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=272592 (37.3 MB)
MOBI format is here: http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=272591 (69.5 MB)
The ebook’s companion content is here: http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=270057 (59.9 MB) (Note: An updated version of the companion content was made available on November 8, 2012, to fix a line of code.)
This free ebook provides comprehensive coverage of the platform for Windows Store apps. Since its second preview in August, we’ve added the remaining chapters on live tiles, notifications, background tasks, background transfers, networking, devices, printing, WinRT components, accessibility, localization, and the Windows Store itself. The final ebook contains 17 chapters. And of course all of the earlier chapters have also been reviewed and refined—over 800 pages in total, along with new and updated companion content!

Polyglot Programming on the Web | Groovy Zone

Polyglot Programming on the Web | Groovy Zone
Whether you like it or not, the web platform has become the dominant client-side technology. This fact is so obvious that even Microsoft and Adobe have abandoned their solutions in favour of the web. And as we’re going to build larger and larger applications in the browser, we need to find ways of doing it in a more productive fashion. I believe languages are a big part of it. And that’s where the Javascript community can learn a little bit from Java.

Using the open xml format sdk 2.0 version | social.msdn.microsoft.com

Using the open xml format sdk 2.0 version | social.msdn.microsoft.com.

Here's a quickie on navigating to a cell in an Excel 2007 XML document, using the Open XML Format SDK verison 2.0 released recently...