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Escape Process’ Death Valley, or How to Tell a Cat From a Washing Machine

Ken Robinson recently delivered yet another great talk on the state of American education.  He pointed out that countries that take a more organic...

0 replies - 1752 views - 05/22/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Moving Education Toward Open Source in Sri Lanka

Recently, I read this post about Richard Stallman’s (RMS) visit to India. And read more about RMS’s visit impacted India. I read this very, very...

1 replies - 1405 views - 05/18/13 by Tharindu Mathew in Articles

Big Data and the Human Right to Education

Day to day, it's easy to lose sight of what it means to live in the future we've made, to take it for granted. Or, put another way: We were promised flying...

0 replies - 2006 views - 05/03/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

How I Got My Kids Into Programming

I’m the father of four wild and crazy kids, and the two older ones are at the age now (4th grade and 1st grade) that I’ve started trying to get them...

3 replies - 10560 views - 12/06/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA

0 replies - 2757 views - 10/09/10 by Manuel Jordan in Book Reviews

Embrace Your Inner Stupid!

One of the classic engineer mistakes is the belief that we can do anything. We understand the basics of electricity, we bend computers to our will, and...

9 replies - 17961 views - 06/09/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

JavaFX in the Wild: Sapphire!

With JavaFX 1.0 having been released just a few days ago, I'm pleased that we're observing more JavaFX applications "in the wild". Here's one that I...

4 replies - 4525 views - 12/18/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles