There are some simple and effective things that can be done to build a great team. This article highlights some easy things that are often missed.http://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27874/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/319284269/how_to_build_a_great_team.htmlFin asked a few of us inside and outside Microsoft for tips in becoming a successful developer. I’m not sure that she expected the deluge (or verbosity) of responses – I think she only had about 300 words to fill in total – she asked 15 people so it turns out 20 words each was the target. I’m going to post my full response here and will link to the others' if they post their full responses as well.http://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27871/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/319330686/how_do_you_become_a_successful_developer.htmlAngsuman Chakraborty discuss 5 of the most have FireFox add-ons which web developers can benefit from. Using these add-ons you can turn the Airefox into an acceptable Web development platformhttp://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27868/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/319471121/5_musthave_firefox_addons_for_web_development_qa.htmlCarl and Richard talk to Don Syme, the inventor of F#, along with F# PM Luke Hoban and MS Researcher Ralf Herbrich about the future of the F# language.http://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27867/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/319471120/net_rocks_f_moves_forward.htmlA blocking queue is a queue that blocks when you try to dequeue from it and the queue is empty, or if you try to enqueue items to it and the queue is already full. A thread trying to dequeue from an empty queue is blocked until some other thread inserts an item into the queue. A thread trying to enqueue an item in a full queue is blocked until some other thread makes space in the...http://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27834/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/javalobby/frontpage/~3/318675334/java-concurrency-blocking-queuJIDE 2.2.8 has been released, providing full support for the Synthetica Look And Feel. Synthetica and JIDEhttp://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27832/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/javalobby/frontpage/~3/318787350/jide-and-syntheticaLike class, structs represent data structures that can contain data members and method members. Unlike classes, structs are value types and do not require heap allocation. A variable of a struct type directly contains the data of the struct, whereas a variable of a class type contains a reference to the data.http://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27817/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/319100149/understanding_structs_in_c.htmlFor some time now my team and I have been working on a new web service called Kloudshare. This is not a product announcement, but I mention it because it provides context for what I have on my mind.http://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27814/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/319124030/memo_to_the_semantic_web_drop_semantic_and_become.htmlKira is designed to bring a good language and modern techniques into play whilst taking advantage of all existing PHP and a massive army of PHP developers.http://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27812/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/319143305/kira_programming_language_that_compiles_to_php.htmlMy primary development machine is Mac OS Leopard on Intel Core 2 Duo (read osxtips). But the beauty of virtualization is that I can run multiple Operating Systems on a single powerful machine. And what better virtualization product than Virtual Box. And Open Solaris has crossed leaps and boundaries making installation and getting started extremely simple :)http://www.devsapiens.com/en/rssflyto/27811/http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/dzone/frontpage/~3/319143304/jrubyonrails_and_mysql_on_glassfish_on_opensolari.html