Maps, Startups and the End of the World… or Not [Software Scramble]
Alright, so we’ve got exactly one week before the world is blasted into oblivion by a giant rogue planet, aliens, zombies, solar flares or an extremely rare annual planetary-solar-galactic allignment....
View Article“The APIs are Coming, the APIs are Coming!” [A MassTLC Discussion]
Yesterday I marched over to the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge to listen in on the great discussions at the annual MassTLC Software Development Summit. This smallish (about 200 people) developer...
View ArticleOur 5 Favorite Software Quality Posts of 2012
With the end of 2013 right around the bend, I took some time this weekend to look back at the articles, videos, pictures and random projects that we’ve published over the course of this year. What I...
View ArticleKiller Software Cartoons to Jump-Start your New Year
January 1st is a day of varying significance for people all around the world. For some, it’s a day that represents the tail-end of the holiday season. For many, it’s a day that exudes new hope and a...
View Article#Inaug2013 Put Twitter to the Test… Again.
I think it’s fair to say that we’ve gotten to the point where we can’t get through any kind of significant global event without putting a huge strain on at least one social media site. These days, it’s...
View ArticleFacebook Plug-in Crashes the Party: Is Defensive Coding the Solution?
It finally happened: Facebook broke the Internet. Well, not exactly. In fact, you may not have even noticed anything was wrong. But last night, for a brief period, a bug in a Facebook plug-in caused...
View ArticleThe Best Tools in Life are Free
Earlier today at the API Strategy Conference, we announced our new freeware initiative, which is designed to give developers and testers worldwide a new option for free, high-quality tools. Building on...
View Article5 Software Cartoons to Get You Through Friday
Welcome to Friday: That time of the week when even those of us who love our jobs can struggle to stay enthused. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, there’s research that shows that taking some time...
View ArticleSecrets of Effective Performance Analysis
Successful performance analysis depends on the ability to identify bottlenecks in the application or system infrastructure. A bottleneck could be caused by any object on a page that is taking longer...
View ArticleSo, I Heard You Guys Like Software Comics
We don’t exactly have Scott Adams on staff to draw witty satires about office shinanigans, but we always enjoy putting out a few good software comics at the end of a grueling week. Whether it’s about...
View ArticleThe Developer’s Tool Kit to Regulated Industries
Whether you’re a game developer or a devops professional at an e-commerce site, it’s your job to ensure that your software runs exactly as it is intended to. But there are a handful of regulated...
View ArticleDoes Code.org Have the Right Message?
The beginning of 2013 saw an amazing amount of buzz around Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to growing computer programming education. Let me start off by stating that, personally, I think the overall...
View ArticlePros and Cons to the Steve Jobs School of Project Management
Whether you think he was a genius or a lunatic, no one denies that Steve Jobs was an innovator. His ideas molded the way that present and future generations think of personal computers, telephones and...
View ArticleWhy Python?
Python is by no means a new language – if it were a human it’d be old enough to legally drink. But over the last few years there has been a huge amount of buzz surrounding this high-level programming...
View ArticleLights Go Out for Yahoo Fantasy Football
For the second time in less than a year, Yahoo’s popular fantasy football site saw a 30 minute outage yesterday. To the chagrin of users across the country, the site went down around 4:30 PM (EST),...
View ArticleLive Blog: API Strategy & Practice Conference
Over the next two days, developers, designers, strategists, and marketers will be coming together at the Parc55 Wyndham Hotel in San Francisco to attend the 2nd API Strategy & Practice Conference....
View ArticleThe Geek Girl Imperative
Last week, SmartBear alumna Lorinda Brandon gave an powerful and insightful keynote address at Degfragcon 2013. I wasn’t only drawn to this conversation because Lorinda is a former colleague and...
View ArticleThe Rise of The Developer, Designer, and Software Tester [Infographic]
According to recent reports, between January and June 2012, the technology (or “tech”) industry added nearly 100,000 jobs at a 1.7 percent gain. It has also been reported that by the year 2020,...
View ArticleIs Your Site Ready for Cyber Monday?
Cyber Monday: It’s the Super Bowl of the sysadmin profession. On this day, a constant stampede of online shoppers will bombard eCommerce sites across the world. It’s inevitable that some issues will...
View ArticleTop 5 Software Quality eBooks of 2013 (Free for Download)
This is the time of the year that companies feel inclined to send out special holiday deals and seasonal greetings meant to make you feel all warm inside. As nice as that may be, these holiday...
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