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36 Resources To Help You Teach Kids Programming

As a parent, I am always looking at what my children are learning and what they like. As a software developer, I hope that my daughters embrace their...

4 replies - 38146 views - 07/23/11 by Robert Diana in News

The next big thing – if you look for it, you won’t find it

Especially the tech industry is obsessed with finding the next big thing. This post argues that that is usually not a smart thing to do.  It makes...

2 replies - 6317 views - 07/06/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

The Kindle is ready for programmers

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Amazon. I recently received a Kindle as a gift and substituted my ebook reader with it. In this article I talk about...

14 replies - 25526 views - 05/31/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

VMware Getting Seriously SaaSy. And PaaSy. And IaaSy. Dang, They Do the Entire Stack Now

The announcements are coming thick and fast for VMware – once pigeonholed as a provider of core infrastructure tools, they’ve rapidly been building a...

0 replies - 4092 views - 05/26/11 by Ben Kepes in News

Daily Dose: LinkedIn Goes Public!

LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, is going public! Selling at $45 per share, the 7.84 million shares total to an amazing $352.8...

0 replies - 24155 views - 05/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Google Delays Release of Honeycomb Code

Android devs got a punch in the gut this week as  Google has decided to keep Android 3.0 Honeycomb's code under lock and key for the foreseeable future. ...

0 replies - 5444 views - 03/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in News

NoSQL Job Trends – February 2011

February is obviously job trends month here, and we have another installment. Today, we are looking at NoSQL job trends. In the previous installment of NoSql...

0 replies - 9295 views - 02/25/11 by Robert Diana in News

Mobile Payments Could Fundamentally Change Small Business

In the past few days, mobile credit card payments have been making news. First, Intuit announced a free version of its mobile payments service called...

0 replies - 5314 views - 01/13/11 by Robert Diana in News

Data, Context, Analysis And Meaning

Data, context and analysis has come up a lot lately. I talked about data and context about a month ago when people were arguing about JSON vs. XML. The problem...

0 replies - 5340 views - 01/11/11 by Robert Diana in News

What Are the Next Big Things In Open Source?

Last week, SDTimes compiled a list of the five next big things in open source. I'd like to hear what you think are the open source technologies to watch in...

3 replies - 8831 views - 12/21/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

The Problem Is Not JSON Or XML, It Is About Data Context

There is an interesting discussion occurring regarding data transfer in web applications. The discussion has centered on the differences between JSON and...

30 replies - 10281 views - 12/03/10 by Robert Diana in News

If You Could Only Learn 3 Programming Languages...

Results!I thought this would be a good question to ask the community after reading an InfoWorld article that was looking for programming languages that are...

18 replies - 20949 views - 11/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

2010 Gadget Census

Retrevo's 2010 Gadget Census revealed what gadgets people were using in each state, with the summary of it captured in the image below:

0 replies - 3578 views - 11/01/10 by Mihai Fonoage in News

You don't have to always stare at a screen

Depending on the particular person, computer monitors cause a certain amount of eye strain after a time period of continuos use. This was especially true for...

4 replies - 8217 views - 10/14/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Man up! (A developer’s responsibility to their team)

Dear Reader, Regular readers know that if I have to answer a question more than once, I usually blog the answer so that I don’t have to answer it...

3 replies - 5255 views - 09/20/10 by Cal Evans in News