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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?
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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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 [...]
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A big part of the reason I wanted to work on Ubuntu in the first place was because I wanted to learn to program. And Ruby being new and sexy and being recommended by several friends I figured I’d give it a try, oh yeah I am also dabbling with HTML and PHP. [...]