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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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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»

Code of Conduct

Future Tense: Extreme ProgrammingREAD»

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ZUNE   |  1 comment

Game Changer: iPhone Apps That Work on the Zune HD

Microsoft may be building a self-branded smartphone to combat the iPhone. But with over 60,000 apps, Apple's behemoth App Store might be too big to beat. What if a Zune (or a Zune-phone) could run iPhone apps? That's the potential ...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»

The eBay of Programmers

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

(Re) Writing Code

Senior executives who want to transform their organization can't focus only on strategy or structure. Ultimately, they need to rescue their company's data from digital oblivion.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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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»

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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»

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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»

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»

BLOGGING   |  1 comment

Which Javascript Framework to Choose?

As a developer that tries to maximize the time efficiency of my projects, I highly recommend scripting the behavior layer of your Web sites with the aid of a Javascript framework. Currently, there a quite a few Javascript ...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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Google Scripts Help Automate Apps, Premier Edition Only

Automation is the dream of every work-laden computer user, and scripting languages can make those dreams come true. Now Google is releasing its own scripting language for its online apps called Google Apps Script. It seems mostly ...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»

IBM's Grassroots Revival

The real story of how Big Blue found the future, got the Net, and learned to love the People in Black.READ»