Articles by Dice Staff
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How New Relic Fixes Crappy Code
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSdo_3eyuTQ&w=560&h=315&wmode=window&h=315] Why is the application slow? Is it the crappy network or is it the crappy code? Do you blame the IT guy or the… -
A Really Expensive Way to Lose at Scrabble
Every once in a while you come across an example of the best sort of over-engineering. In this case it's a board game that we all know and love, tweaked to a level of perfection that none of us n… -
Android's Better Developer Tool Setup
Google recently released the first-ever Android development bundle. If you've had any experience setting up a development environment for Android, you'll be glad to know these new bundled tools h… -
Should Peer-to-Peer Movie Pirates Be Punished?
With all the hoopla over Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there's another event happening this week that isn't getting much attention. It begins today, when AT&T, Time Warner and other broadband pr… -
HR Experts on the Next Wave of HR Tech
At the 2012 HR Tech Conference in Chicago, there were hundreds of technologies on the trade show floor trying to be the next cool thing. At the same time, there were tons of sessions trying to pr… -
When Software Engineers Whine With Reason
Not long ago, Slashdot's Jeff Cogswell set out to see if two business intelligence tools would come back with the same answer to a single question. Two months later, he's come back with a horror… -
What Makes E-Learning 2.0 Better
In 1999 and early 2000 I was part of the Cisco e-learning architecture team. At the time, it seemed as though e-learning—which basically encompasses various forms of electronically supported teac…