O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Something you might not be aware of is that the part of Comcast that I work for is all open source. We use open source technology, we open source projects, we're even all on Macs which is something new for...

When you finally do find a company that is a home, it's important to recognize that and invest time with that company. As I detailed in the first part of this series, there are many benefits to jumping from company...

Beyond the obvious questions of: am I paid fairly, is the company stable, do I like what I do and the people I work with, there are a number of questions that you need to further ask to easily identify a home. One such question is, "Are there working managers?" In some companies the manager of application development is not actually a developer and never has been a developer. Most of the times when this is the case the company has no career path for developers beyond senior. Or there may be titles created beyond senior but no path that leads to VP or a C-level position. In those companies that path is reserved exclusively for "managers".

The current economic climate notwithstanding, developers tend to change employers quite a bit in comparison to other professions, at least according to my own anecdotal evidence. From my own experience I've been at six different companies over the last ten...

So far we've seen how to implement the calendar component, and explored the logic inside the Calendar class itself. From here I will show the logic inside of the Day class, and talk about potential ways to expand the...

In my previous entry I discussed including and implementing the Calendar component in a new project. In this next entry I'm going to explore the Calendar class. The basic idea for the Calendar class is to assemble a collection of...

A few months ago I sat down to make a calendar component, purely as a technical exercise, but because of the way that I set up the architecture it ended up being a fairly useful and easily extended component....

I thought I would take some time to talk about some of the special considerations that you have to take when creating and maintaining RIAs for sites that have a national audience. While these can be considered good general practice, at a certain tipping point they become indispensable for the health of your system.

My previous article explored the benefits of getting involved in higher education. It was followed up with a number of interesting comments, one of which was: Great idea, but would like to hear more on how you got the job teaching (saw a posting, contacted the school, what). So I thought I would follow up with an article detailing my experience with this.

The single biggest recommendation I can give to developers out in the field, the one thing that they can do that will impact their career and personal growth, is to get involved in higher education by teaching. The benefits are so many, so far reaching, and so distributed that I felt they would make a great topic for discussion.