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When I read the bellow two articles about Opera and HTML 5 it really solidifies to me the fact that programming is getting easier. The ability for people to do more with less, on the Web, is only going to expand exponentially.
That Reinvention Of The Web Thing Opera Was Talking About? It’s Called [...]
prog21: Let’s Take a Trivial Problem and Make it Hard
Saw this via YCombinator. Clicked through and thought: “Let’s take a problem I don’t understand and talk about it in a way that makes me not think I’m reading the right story.” huh?
Linux gets all the love as the main Open Source Operating System but I wonder sometimes, because of it’s licensing differences if BSD has a better chance of accomplishing what Ubuntu set out to do?
Slashdot | FreeBSD 7.2 Released
“The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE.
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jmtd ? log ? my first attempt at hacking on Linux: a story
Heck my first project was just getting Ubuntu installed on an old Dell
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Five Reasons Why Developers are Switching to Mac | How-To | Smashing Magazine
I even know DotNet devs that are switching. That seems crazy to me.
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Slashdot | Coders, Your Days Are Numbered
“Fatal Exception’s Neil McAllister argues that communication skills, not coding skills, are a developer’s greatest asset in a bear economy”
tags: programming, communication, n00b
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An interesting list. I wonder how realistic it is though. The trend seems to be in specialization not generalization. I imagine the argument could be made that you would need an understanding of all of these but specialize in one or two. Of course most of these are just making sure you’re just well rounded.
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OK, this is really good news for me, because I haven’t taken a math class since I was a sophomore in high school which was in 1987-88.
Coding Horror: Should Competent Programmers be “Mathematically Inclined”?
On the other hand, I have not found in practice that programmers need to be mathematically inclined to [...]
Command-line Fu < The best UNIX commands on the web
A very cool resource for command line tips. I also thought it was cool that you could follow these tips on Twitter.
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This article brings up a reoccurring thought: Programming and the Web are like layers and the more progress we make the more layers we add. It’s like the catacombs and ancient cities where they just used to build their new cities on top of the old ones.
Why MIT switched from Scheme [...]
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For me the most fascinating aspect of both Django and Ruby on Rails isn’t their approach to programming, it’s the passion and community that approach inspires. It will be interesting to watch Django and their community evolve.
Django | Weblog | Django 1.1 beta released
As part of the Django 1.1 release process, tonight we’ve [...]