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Nick Johnson04/30/13
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Algorithm of the Week: BK-Trees (from "Damn Cool Algorithms")

BK-Trees, or Burkhard-Keller Trees are a tree-based data structure engineered for quickly finding near-matches to a string, for example, as used by a spelling checker, or when doing a 'fuzzy' search for a term. The aim is to return, for example, "seek" and "peek" if I search for "aeek".

Paul Underwood04/30/13
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Display A List Of Authors On WordPress

If you want to create a page to display all the authors you have two options, you can create a new page template which will allow you to code the layout of the page to show all the authors. The other option is to create a shortcode where the user of the site can use this on a new page content to create a list of all the authors.

Allen Coin04/30/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (Apr. 30)

Today: They don't make diplomas like they used to, according to study: programmers' skills age like fine wine, an addictive in-browser game by Notch, and announcing HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS!

Sean Hull04/30/13
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I Thought Sales Sucked, Then I Gained a Business Perspective...

The sales team made promises of technology the company wasn’t capable of delivering. Meanwhile the engineering team was sent scrambling to answer to those promises. This is why I started out hating sales in my early career.

John Sonmez04/29/13
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How To Deal With Making Mistakes

It is to easy to get hung up on a mistake and become paralyzed by it in such a way that it prevents you from having future success. I seem to have an instinctual desire to throw away what I am doing or try to completely wipe the board clean, whenever I make a mistake.

Eric Gregory04/29/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/29)

Today: NASA turns an Android phone into a satellite, Python plays the banjo, why enterprise websites are so awful so often, and some truly spectacular behind the scenes photos from The Empire Strikes Back.

Martin Fowler04/29/13
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The Component Test

A component test is a test that limits the scope of the exercised software to a portion of the system under test. It is in contrast to a Broad-Stack Test that's intended to exercise as much of the system as is reasonable.

Jim Bird04/29/13
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Code Ownership – Who Should Own the Code?

A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be divided up: who is going to work on what code; how much work can be, and should be, shared across the team; and who will be responsible for code quality.

Ross Mason04/29/13
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MuleSoft Acquires ProgrammableWeb

I am excited to share the news that MuleSoft has acquired ProgrammableWeb. This combination brings together the world’s most widely used integration platform with the world’s most authoritative voice and community for APIs.

Giorgio Sironi04/28/13
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How to stub SOAP in PHP

How wonderful is the world of REST (or maybe ROT) web services... But many legacy and enterprise systems that we need to integrate are only accessible via SOAP. With a bit of experience and the right testing support, SOAP web services are not technologically difficult to call from PHP code.

Allen Coin04/28/13
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Video: Testing Online Crazy Glue: Strategies for building testable PHP applications

"I've been teaching programming for a few years now, and I've come to realize that the harder a languages is to teach, the more poorly designed it is."

Oscar Berg04/28/13
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Is the Office Really the Best Place to Get Work Done?

Yahoo’s decision to ban working from home can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. Whatever the reasons might be, to me their decision sends out a signal of desperation and reveals that Yahoo's management is incapable of dealing with flexible working.