Yearly Archives: 2010

Puzzles: Informative alternatives for Java developers

By Ben | Published: April 29, 2010
Reading in my currrent favorate time-beater book when commuting I stumbled across the following: \u0070\u0075\u0062\u006c\u0069\u0063\u0020\u0020\u0020\u0020 \u0063\u006c\u0061\u0073\u0073\u0020\u0055\u0067\u006c\u0079 \u007b\u0070\u0075\u0062\u006c\u0069\u0063\u0020\u0020\u0020 \u0020\u0020\u0020\u0020\u0073\u0074\u0061\u0074\u0069\u0063 \u0076\u006f\u0069\u0064\u0020\u006d\u0061\u0069\u006e\u0028 \u0053\u0074\u0072\u0069\u006e\u0067\u005b\u005d\u0020\u0020 \u0020\u0020\u0020\u0020\u0061\u0072\u0067\u0073\u0029\u007b \u0053\u0079\u0073\u0074\u0065\u006d\u002e\u006f\u0075\u0074 \u002e\u0070\u0072\u0069\u006e\u0074\u006c\u006e\u0028\u0020 \u0022\u0048\u0065\u006c\u006c\u006f\u0020\u0077\u0022\u002b \u0022\u006f\u0072\u006c\u0064\u0022\u0029\u003b\u007d\u007d Guess what is this?* Java Puzzles is one of these great book you can read when travelling short distances. It keeps you fit in the language basics and is fun [...]
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UX and App Design at Google – Takeaways

By Ben | Published: February 3, 2010
Yesterday I was at an interesting UX knowledgeshare event where Simon Raess spoke about user experience and application design at Google. Google being an engineering company at heart they arguably only put in the recent years more weight on Ux and Design. Also nowadays Google employs only 200 designers. Being an engineer myself, I expected [...]
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A Programmer’s New Year’s Resolution for 2010: Learning Scala

By Ben | Published: January 9, 2010
In a world of constant change and ever increasing speed of innovation as a programmer, you might sit back and think about how to prepare for those changes and increase your career options. You might also look forward to a mental distraction from the daily Java/Ruby/PHP routine, or your inner geek is just looking for [...]
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