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- Making Man As Super As His Computer
- Worst case, Steve Wallach figures it costs $10,000 to buy a blade server that can execute 50 billion floating point operations in a second. By that measure, it would take $200,000 to buy 20 of the blades, to handle a trillion operations a second in a heavy-duty scientific or financial...
- Tags: Programmer, Computer, Steve Wallach, Convey Computer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- IT Hiring Kit: Programmer
- The IT Hiring Kit for Programmers will help you interview, evaluate, and select suitable candidates for a programmer's position in your company. This kit comes with a detailed job description, interview questions, a candidate assessment spreadsheet, classified ad text, and offer and rejection letters. Each document is customizable so you...
- Tags: Kit, Information Technology, Programmer, Development Tools, Productivity, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- Download resources 2008-11-11
- How to scale to 256 processors and beyond
- On the advice of fellow ZDNet blogger Mary-Jo Foley I recently watched a video interview with Mark Russinovich. She wrote: "Given I'm not a programmer and am trying to channel a very technical Russinovich, it's probably worth checking out the Channel 9 video interview of him yourself if you care...
- Tags: Processor, Video, Programmer, Corporate Communications, Development Tools, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette, Contention, Microsoft Windows 7, Voltaire Inc., Lock, CPU, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Hacking the vote
- Hacking the voteYou'd think soBut lots of very smart people have spent lots of time not solving it.i think your server idea is right except that programmable clients make it possible to attack the server data store - something that can't be done with Sun Rays.Downside to having people pick...
- Tags: Scanners, E-voting, SECURITY, VOTING MACHINES, ballot, hacking, programmer, server
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Will the economic downturn have a negative effect on open source?
- Will the economic downturn have a negative effect on open source?First Vote!... and, as usual, the mathematical geniuses who coded the stupid poll function manage to give 100% to yes, 100% to no. Neat trick, that.Positive effectBy participating in open source projects, unemployed programmers can keep their skills up...
- Tags: Development tools, open source, programmer, negative effect
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- Ruby Comes to the .NET Platform: Find Out Why .NET Programmers May Want to Learn and Use Ruby, and Discover the Core Syntax of the Language
- Microsoft's IronRuby project brings a powerful and fun dynamic language to the Windows platform. The Ruby programming language is a modern, object-oriented scripting language, with a syntax inspired by languages such as Perl and Smalltalk. It was conceived by Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka "Matz"). In his words, Matz wanted a language...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Ruby, Programmer, Language, Ruby Programming Language, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2008-10-20
- IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers
- Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you'll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the firm's Symposium ITxpo. These prediction presentations...
- Tags: Device, Information Technology, Gesture, ROI, Programmer, Programming, Wireless, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Development Tools, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Where are all the programmers?
- Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...
- Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Where are all the programmers?
- I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...
- Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu
- October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, UbuntuAmazing!I just amazes me what an army of unpaid programmers can do ;-).While I note the smileyThe 'unpaid' cliche is getting old."Acquia launched of its [i]commercially[/i] supported version""[/i]Novell-sponsored[/i] Mono project"Though I agree it's amazing about the army of unpaid Ubuntu...
- Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Mono, Ubuntu, Drupal, OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...
- Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- When you look at staffing for the typical iSeries based data center the one thing that's most striking is that relative to the mainframe data center positions are broader, people less constrained, and whole customer facing versus internal distinction is completely missing. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Data Center, IBM AS/400, IBM OS/400, Programmer, Data Centers, Servers, Development Tools, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Semantic guardians for our computers?
- Semantic guardians for our computers?ActuallyNo, I built my PC's using components I selected that were manufactured here on good ol' terra firma. I don't experience crashes since I use Linux and am not afflicted with malware issues.Also I selected the hardware components and matched them. Maybe I am just lucky......
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Processors, Semantic Guardians, programmer, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Thoughts on Microsoft Response Point
- Thoughts on Microsoft Response PointPolitics of ProgrammingWhat has been so hard about being articulate and clear to the end user? Why, to this day, are arcane and obtuse references constantly popping up on Windows machines? It's a legacy of obfuscation that has come from a programming culture. This culture has...
- Tags: Development tools, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., programmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Learning the programmer's craft
- Learning the programmer's craftPerfectionThe best programmers are perfectionists. The more of a perfectionist you are the better your code is. The rest simply follows, reading books, research, bouncing ideas, all that. And as you said, products like Linux are the diligent effort of many great programmers. ...
- Tags: Development tools, programmer, craft, Learning
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Learning the programmer's craft
- I ended up in programming by accident, as many do. I was studying for a PhD and having to write software as part of the studies, only to find that writing the software was more interesting and fun than finishing the PhD. So I ran away and joined a small...
- Tags: Computer Science, Programmer, Programming, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Iceberg: cuts code, evolves your enterprise
- Iceberg: cuts code, evolves your enterpriseEasier to write a web service in an SOAThe problem with these types of soup to nuts servers is they are fighting the last war.I find it much easier to construct little applications using .NET and java inside an SOA than to maintain a behemoth...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Application servers, iceberg, SOA, server
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?
- [Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of...
- Tags: JavaScript, Programmer, JavaScript 2.0, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Analysts: vendors are mellowing their SOA pitches
- Analysts: vendors are mellowing their SOA pitchesTools, Not AppsSOA is a programmer's environment...like a gardener coming to work each day, the programmer writes and mends small services specific to the task.Vendors should be selling the hoes, trowels and rakes...not some gigantic blunderbus "application server".Include the knowledge worker...and meet success!RPC ->...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Easier C++: An Introduction to Concepts
- Every C++ programmer has had one of those days: A simple use of a template library turns into a nightmare, with pages upon pages of error messages streaming out of the compiler. Somewhere in that proverbial haystack are the clues the programmer will need to determine exactly what went wrong...
- Tags: Programmer, C++, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-08-18

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