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- Anonymous netizens offer a July 1 manifesto, posters
- Anonymous netizens offer a July 1 manifesto, postersyeahhhhh baaaabyIm a developer and hate those managers and companies who Ive worked overtimefor free all these years(yeah i know its crazy to work overtime but I did, many, many hours overtime) And I resent them using my work to make lots of...
- Tags: Government, Chinese Government, programmer
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: WPF for the Business Programmer With Paul Sheriff (Level 200)
- Windows Presentation Foundation, is it really for business applications? The presenter of this webcast discusses the reasons why one would choose to use WPF over Windows Forms, and when you might not. This webcast shows some concrete examples that illustrate how much easier it is to do certain tasks in...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Programmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts 2009-04-22
- Programmers and IT failure
- Programmers and IT failureFlawed DisciplineBless their souls: programmers are victims of a flawed discipline. One that has been flawed for decades.Development is a trade, a craft. It requires senior craftsmen to apprentice -- PMs are not senior craftsmen, nor is their discipline.In larger construction efforts, the problem lies in not...
- Tags: Development tools, information technology, BAD CODE, programmer
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Programmers and IT failure
- Let's not forget the role of programmers when analyzing and examining IT failures. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Programmer, Programming, IT Failure, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Import Export (MS Office Tool) 1.0 (Windows)
- Extracting and importing is a major problem. Just think, you could take a text file and import it into a program to get automatic results. The text file will be filtered to display only the data. All headings and report titles will be removed. This data then could be exported...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Data, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Spreadsheet, Tool, ED Quick Click Software, Import Export Application, Import Export, Productivity, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-03-23
- Tips and Tricks for Creating the Reports Your Clients Need to See
- Advanced reporting tools such as PROC REPORT have progressed by leaps and bounds in terms of options available to programmers for creating tables. Add to that the always-improving Output Delivery System ODS, and it seems the sky is the limit for creating ready-for-delivery output straight from SAS. Just when one...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Programmer, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Boot Camp for Programmers: Stuff You Need to Know That's Not in the Manual
- Imagine that one completed a research project a year ago, and now the clients are challenging the results. They doubt one's numbers, and they want to know how one came to conclusions. Could one retrace the steps and reproduce the results? Could one describe what they did and why they...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Programmer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2009-02-27
- A "SAS Programmer's" Guide to the SAS Enterprise Guide
- This paper demonstrates how SAS programmers can use SAS Enterprise Guide as their primary interface to the SAS system while maintaining the flexibility of writing their own customized code. The paper will look at how to navigate the views and menus, how SAS Enterprise Guide can be used as the...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Programmer
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Manipulating OLAP Cubes: Advanced Techniques for SAS Programmers
- As the amount of data that is captured electronically increases exponentially, more and more organizations are turning to OLAP Cubes as a way to surface data in a meaningful way. OLAP, or Online Analytical Processing, provides a multi-dimensional view of aggregated data. It provides quick and easy access to facts,...
- Tags: Technique, OLAP, SAS Institute, Programmer, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Why SAS Certification Is Helpful in Enhancing Your Career as an Analyst and SAS Programmer?
- Many people do not believe in the usefulness of IT certification. There have been many such certifications which failed to provide employers with information on the level of competence of the programmers. This lack of faith in IT certification resulted in many people ignoring them. However, in this paper, the...
- Tags: Certification, Career, SAS Institute, Programmer, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-02-27
- PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?
- PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?Yale Patt is being foolish.You cannot ignore the factors of time and money. In the real non-ideal world, their are many practical considerations that cannot be avoided.Most programmers are average, which may not be good enough for "Yale Patt" but it is...
- Tags: Development tools, programmer, PPoPP 2009 Day 2, Yale Patt
- Discussion threads 2009-02-20
- PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?
- The second day of the PPoPP 2009 conference started with a controversial keynote by Yale Patt from the University of Texas at Austin. It was so controversial, for me at least, that I decided to wait a few days to calm down before writing about it. He had three main...
- Tags: Software, Hardware, Programmer, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhere
- IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhereProblem is what you define as software.Today we seem to define a computer program as anything from assembly language to HTML, and most programming is actually script languages executed by an Interpreter. The computer industry seems to support this move away from real computer...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, information technology, software, programmer
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- Is cash king of open source?
- Is cash king of open source?Hello?So you believe it cost more to produce a proprietary piece of software then it does a free and open source piece of software?NoBut when a proprietary operator goes under the software disappears into the bankruptcy court or a new owner.When an open source operator...
- Tags: open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-01-16
- The difficulties of being virtual
- The difficulties of being virtualVirtual OfficeDesktop virtualization software such as ThinServer allow mobile workforce to work anywhere as long as there is an internet connection and also take care of the security issuehttp://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htmControl IssueIt's as plain as the day is long that Virtual has many real direct and indirect benefits.IBM...
- Tags: Telecommuting, Development tools, Recruitment & Selection, desktop virtualization, Desktops, programmer
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Making Man As Super As His Computer
- Making Man As Super As His ComputerMore BackgroundUnless this article is targeted only at supercomputer programmers, I think the article is assuming too much. I would like to know how the idea that Convey has differ from what is done currently with supercomputers. What are the problems he...
- Tags: Development tools, programmer, supercomputer, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- 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
- Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributions
- Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributionsFOSS is okay for programmers, but ...not necessarily so for architects, DBAs, web designers, sysadmins, or other technical professions. And I view the American coder as being in the same boat as the American steelworker or autoworker. That boat is sinking...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, F/OSS, openSUSE, programmer
- Discussion threads 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

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