Developers come in all shapes and sizes, but they do share one thing in common: they all THINK like programmers. And they bring that approach to everything in their lives, whether it is a challenging ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Employers want developers that are immediately productive. They don’t want to waste time ...

Developers tend to build and test software on their local laptops, but these machines often lack the necessary resources to efficiently run a full-scale development environment. Large companies have ...

I bet you could point to the weakest software developer in your department with little hesitation. But if I asked you to identify your criteria, it’s unlikely that “metrics” would play any part in ...

Not long ago, Stephen Bradley, a New York tech entrepreneur, was looking to expand his company, AuthorBee, which aggregates tweets and Instagram posts and puts them together in story form. Instead of ...