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- The fastest way to learn open source
- The fastest way to learn open sourceReally?You wrote:One of the biggest problems in computing today is the shortage of young programmers, and one of the chief reasons for that is a shortage of readable, basic guides which can act as textbooks in high schools.[End quote.]I'd thought there were more programmers...
- Tags: Development tools, Programming languages, Scripting languages, programmer, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Working for The Man? Advice to a young programmer
- Working for The Man? Advice to a young programmerArt? Since when is that part of so-called 'corporate culture',which is not driven by art but by money and how marketable something is. And as we've often seen, marketable does not always equate with quality.Or if something if released, corporations...
- Tags: Development tools, health risk, Microsoft Windows, programmer, young programmer, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
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- Inside an early star-forming galaxy
- U.S. astronomers from the California Institute of Technology Caltech have used adaptive optics AO on the 10-meter Keck Telescope in Hawaii in conjunction with other images provided by the Hubble Space Telescope to look inside a young star-forming galaxy as it appeared only two billion years after the Big Bang....
- Tags: California Institute Of Technology, Image, Adaptive Optic, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- 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
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...
- Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- I'm well aware what I pay for Google's services
- My post on Google earlier Tuesday was met with mixed reactions. A few folks agreed that, in fact, Google's suite of services is quite slick, long live GOOG, etc. Others, like fellow ZDNet blogger, Michael Krigsman, disagreed pretty strongly. In his response, Michael didn't leave much doubt...
- Tags: Google Inc., OpenOffice, Productivity, E-mail Providers, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- AzSQL Decryptor (exe)
- AzSQL Decryptor is an SQL object decryptor. It allows you unravel a single encrypted sql object or an entire database full of stored procedures, triggers, views, and user defined functions with simplicity and blinding speed. Its user-friendly interface allows for easy viewing of encrypted code of any size and complete...
- Tags: SQL, AzSQL Technology, AzSQL Decryptor, Programming Languages, Databases, Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- sBOOKs - Charles Dickens Vol 1 (exe)
- See 11 ebooks from Charles Dickens in one easy to use application. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812. He was the second of eight children. His mother had been in service to Lord Crew, and his father worked as a clerk for the Naval Pay...
- Tags: Mother, SmartSolutions, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- The ultimate earmark in Wall Street bailout
- The ultimate earmark in Wall Street bailoutI am sure there will beplenty of people looking into the issue of the mental health of those on Wall Street that helped create the problems of late.RE: The ultimate earmark in Wall Street bailoutI appreciate your advocacy for mental health, but your pessimism...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Wall Street Bailout
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
- The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that...
- Tags: FBI, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Operation Cyberslam, Gembe, Federal Government, Government, security, botnet, cybercrime, DOS, attacks, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-10-06
- Track the Presidential election polls with your iPhone
- Track the Presidential election polls with your iPhoneif you install and run this app, you must be sad..ntThis app is awesomeIt's called "Election '08" as far as my iPhone says... and I've been using it for a few weeks and loving it. I'm not usually really big on polling data...
- Tags: Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- What if there was educational content for the Nintendo DSi?
- What if there was educational content for the Nintendo DSi?RE: What if there was educational content for the Nintendo DSi?I certainly hope they do better with the browser offering. The one available for the current DS is a joke. As for educational offerings, Nintendo's systems usually seem to...
- Tags: Games, Nintendo DSi, educational content, Nintendo Co. Ltd., What-If
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Texting? Pull Over ...
- So, it looks official. The train engineer who never slowed down before ramming his commuter train into a freight train in California was indeed sending text messages right up to the time of the crash. That's bad enough. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured in the...
- Tags: Train, California, U.K., Wreck, Bicyclists, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- 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
- Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed
- Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealedI guess no-one mentioned the "G" word, then?I've heard that the "G" word makes Steve Ballmer angry.Don't make Steve Ballmer angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry. Allegedly... ;-)http://battellemedia.com/archives/001835.phpRE: Student Technology Day:[i]So, a streamed, web-browser'd version of Office; sounds like a plan.[/i]Sounds very nice![i]I...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Student Technology Day, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Apple drops iPhone developer NDA
- Apple drops iPhone developer NDAAbandoning the Titanic?I know three small outfits that have almost completely dropped development of iPhone projects to jump on Android now that there's a real product. I'm sure many others are sick and tired of Apple's perpetual chokehold and want to move to a better situation.Planned...
- Tags: Development tools, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., NDA, iPhone developer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
- The collapse of top US financial firms is causing a dramatic slowdown in lucrative contracts among outsourcing companies in India--turning cities like Bangladore inside out. Bangalore, India--Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more sober days in the wake of the credit crisis. It looks like...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Indian Institute Of Management, Outsourcing Company, Wage Increase, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, outsourcing, jobs, skills, Saritha Rai, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-30
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Thanks, but no thanks, SASSome good R linkshttp://www.johnmwillis.com/r/are-you-using-r/openIntelTry openIntel, a free data model offered by OSEd ( http://osed.com ). IT is free and it includes documentation explaining it, the tables and the relations. It was designed by Maurice Frank, the original creator of the IBM Insight at...
- Tags: SAS Institute, data model
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Yesterday I wrote about some data analysis I need to do. It turns out, there is quite a lot of analysis that needs to take place, along with fairly serious data management, especially as we start to relate MCAS scores with other data (SATs, special education testing, socioeconomic data,...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
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