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Get some advice for dealing with burnout or if you find that you don't want to program anymore. Plus some important news about the JS spec "Promises" and a 17 year old girl who won a major hackathon.

Lua as a cross platform programming language has been popularly used in games and embedded systems. However, due to its excellent use for configuration, it has found wider acceptance in other user cases as well.

UX-led development is where your User eXperience (UX) developers are active within a dev-team, pushing the experience, behaviors and interactions. Pushing in this context means rapid evolution of a working UI.

One of my goals when I started building Vincent was to streamline the creation of maps as much as possible. There are some excellent Python map libraries out there- see Basemap and Kartograph for more fun with maps. I highly recommend both of those tools, as they are both quite good and very powerful. I wanted something a little simpler, that relies on the power of Vega and allows for simple syntax- point to geoJSON files, specify a projection and scale/size, output the map.

These people (vultures!) who take and take with no giving back, who are called “customers” in other companies, by the way, and who often have perfectly reasonable requests of the vendors from whom they get their software, because if they had time to build it themselves, they wouldn’t need to download your stuff.

It's impossible to predict performance and you need the right tooling to measure it. The Stopwatch Symfony Component is a userland object that lets you time critical section of code to get some data about their execution, even directly in the production environment.

Here's a recent interview with Hans Dockter, founder of Gradle and Gradleware. We talked about the new Android plugin, and Gradleware's conference on June 13-14th in Santa Clara: Gradle Summit 2013.

Here's a quick tutorial for adding documents using Java Couchdb4j.

Contains complete setup instructions for Eclipse to do both the server-side and client-side coding, over 22 screenshots, full WSDL and SOAP request and response payloads and manual testing via Firefox "Poster" extension. Entire source code only 3 java files.

With the latest release of JBoss EAP 6.1.0.Beta, it was time to overhaul my existing demo projects and here you will find the results. Previously I had updated this project to JBoss EAP 6.0.

A handful of dice can make a decent normal random number generator, good enough for classroom demonstrations. I wrote about this a while ago.

Earlier this year MuleSoft completed our second annual SaaS Vendor survey with our research partner THINKstrategies. The goal was to quantify the importance and impact of integration on the business execution by leading SaaS providers.

Article about introduction in testing of Spring MVC applications. Example of simple test for a controller. Annotation based configuration

And, since I’m cheating on how to do a real personal kanban, I thought I would at least describe for you how to do real personal kanban over at Personal Kanban for Your Job Hunt.