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What’s a developer, really? Pavan Belagatti explores the modern developer in this article to see if he could find any trends in the field.

When the forefathers of Agile met to write the manifesto that provides the guiding principles of Agile software development, Wikipedia was just formed, the iPod hadn’t launched, and the first versions of IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse were in beta. The principles of Agile have not changed. More than ever, we strive to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.

Internet of Things is rapidly becoming a central piece of the IT industry, so it goes without saying that the star of this growing topic of conversation, the IoT architect, may become one of the most sought-after roles.

There is no such thing as a recipe for success when it comes to climbing the professional ladder and developers are no exception. The lack of a well-defined route can hamper a developer’s journey from novice to master, but there are things you can do to help yourself.

From March’s JAX Magazine, Black Duck’s Dave Gruber explains everything you need to consider when fully embracing open source projects in the enterprise.

The co-founder of the developer analyst firm explored the history of the language and platform in ‘The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java’

Experienced presenter Dirk Haun on how to cope when best-laid plans fall through while presenting tech talks.

Some systems are too large to be understood entirely by any one human mind. They are composed of a diverse array of individual components capable of interacting with each other and adapting to a changing environment. As systems, they produce behavior that differs in kind from the behavior of their components. Tim Berglund discusses the emerging discipline of Complexity Theory that seeks to describe such phenomena previously encountered in biology, sociology, economics, and other disciplines. Beyond new ways of looking at ant colonies, fashion trends, and national economies, complexity theory promises powerful insights to software development. The Internet—perhaps the most valuable piece of computing infrastructure of the present day—may fit the description of a complex

An interesting blogpost from one developer reveals why he jacked in his daily routine to travel the world. Question is, would you do the same?

Android developers get a lot more room to play with as Google expands the Android Market limit to 4GB. Your APK file still stays small though.

Despite being slightly vague in how the metric will be defined, IBM have filed a patent entitled ‘AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF CODE DEVELOPER’S PROFILE’. But what does that mean?

The development tools company are looking for YOUR views on developer habits and productivity in a new survey.

Joachim Arrasz discusses why developers ought to be more pragmatic than dogmatic, using a Spring scenario

Electric Cloud survey 144 software development professionals on attitudes towards software testing.