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Can You Work in Netscape Time?

Are you fast enough? Are you hungry enough? Are you tough enough? To work, live, compete in Netscape time?READ»

Coffee with Jonathan Sapir

Last week, I spent an afternoon with Jonathan Sapir, president of InfoPower Systems Inc., an Illinois-based application development company. Currently counting 50 employees, the 10-year-old firm has spent the last year stepping ...READ»

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Windows To Include a "Time Machine" Feature?

Seeking to expand the functionality of their Windows Home Server software, Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] is reportedly looking to hire a software development engineer. The job description: someone to put together a "top-notch UI for ...READ»

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Microsoft Opens Surface "Interactive Table" SDK for Free

Everyone loves Microsoft interactive table, Surface--just check out our list of killer Surface apps to see why. So it's good news that this week Redmond announced it would be opening up the Surface software developer kit, or SDK, to ...READ»

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This is my first blog post!

Hello everyone! This is my first blog post. I am a 27 year old computer programmer.READ»

Code of Conduct

Future Tense: Extreme ProgrammingREAD»

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Twitter: The "Living Rolodex" Lives Up to Its Description

With a project overdue and a programmer who was AWOL, we turned to Twitter to get the job completed over the weekend. How did it all turn out?READ»

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What's Behind The Acronyms

In order to participate in the discussion it's helpful to know what people are talking about. I've grabbed some of my favorite acronyms from a number of different online sources. I invite everyone to amend, alter, correct and ...READ»

The eBay of Programmers

Rent A Coder matches projects with software developers from around the world.READ»

How to Create a World

Programmers have to deal with a lot of harsh realities when creating a virtual world. Blazing petroleum rivers are the least of it.READ»

Drop and Code Me Twenty!

A letter from software bootcamp.READ»

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Blackberry and Palm Apps Getting Better, but Not Fast Enough

Even as Apple celebrates the release of its 100,000th app--and that cash machine it calls the app store--Palm and RIM are running fast to catch up, and woo developers to their platforms. Earlier this week, Palm introduced a Web-based ...READ»

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Smartphone App Wars: Palm's Mojo Application SDK Stumbles Into Battle

Palm just waved its magic wand and abracadabra'd the Mojo Software Development Kit into public reality. It's the software that developers have been waiting for, and it could turn the Pre into something much more interesting. Palm ...READ»

Inspired by Work

What's most intriguing about "open-source" software isn't what it does -- it's how it gets created. Eric S. Raymond, open-source evangelist, explains why and how these programmers do their work -- and what that means for the rest of us.READ»

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Microsoft Knows How to Operate - Fast

For one of the hardest-driving companies in the world's fastest-paced industry, there's no question that business is war.READ»

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CISCO JOB OPENINGS

System Administrator Location Thornton, Colorado Description Cisco is looking for a System Administrator with 1 to 5 years experience. The ideal candidate will have experience with Linux (redhat), Data Centers and server ...READ»

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Motorola to Inject Life Into Android, With Developer Program

It's becoming clear--the future of the smartphone is intimately tied with app development, and that's something Motorola knows. It's trying to promote app building for the Android platform with a new MOTODEV program. The developer ...READ»

Games People Play

The Austin Game Developers Conference takes place Sept. 11-12 in Austin, Texas. The two-day event focuses on next-generation technologies and business strategies for online multiplayer and mobile games. Speakers include staff from ...READ»

They Write the Right Stuff

As the 120-ton space shuttle sits surrounded by almost 4 million pounds of rocket fuel, exhaling noxious fumes, visibly impatient to defy gravity, its on-board computers take command.READ»

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Google's Android Gets Closer

A curious day of news from Web giant Google [NASDAQ:GOOG], whose rumored GPhone arrived for approval at the FCC. But even more interesting is fresh dirt on the Android operating system that should make the GPhone a contender in the ...READ»

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Adam Melzer

Adam Melzer Coding was not necessarily planned out to any great degree, and the activity was limited in what it could produce by the lesser capabilities of early computers and tools. Many years later, we have computers on our desktops that would have qualified as super computers years ago, as well as countless software development tools and methodologies to choose from. Despite that, there is still a great deal of plain “programming” continuing to occur. READ»

Look Into Their Eyes

These people lost high-tech jobs to low-wage countries. Try telling them that offshoring is a good thing in the long run.READ»

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Palm Hopes Building Apps on the Web Will Draw Developers

Palm desperately needs better apps. And it's hoping its new Web-based development environment will lure more creative code monkeys, according to PCWorld. But is the environment really the problem? Or is Palm offering too little too ...READ»

Mobile Lounges and Development Methodology

I recently flew into Washington Dulles airport, and I was struck anew with the sheer impracticality of the Dulles “mobile lounge.” It’s like something out of Star Wars. I can only imagine the glee of the Chrysler salesman who, ...READ»

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Relaxing face muscles

What is it about technology that makes us grimace? Are the wrinkles permanent? How can we make things that relax face muscles, as the face is just expressing something deeper felt about the experience we're having.READ»