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New glass for touchscreens Slacker00710-Jan-12 8:54 Slacker007 10-Jan-12 8:54  check it[^] Sounds good to me. Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011) "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011) Boo - syntactic sugar for object-oriented JavaScript Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:33 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:33  Yay for sugary JavaScript. Source: Sorella's Basement Unit Testing Myths and Practices Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:33 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:33  Once upon a time, in a codebase far, far away... Source: Simple-talk Syncing Visual Studio Extensions and Settings with Dropbox Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:32 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:32  File under: Cool IDE tricks. Source: Lars Wilhelmsen Insidious C behavior Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:32 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:32  And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids. Source: Adam Klein Duck Programming Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:32 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:32  If it runs like a duck, and compiles like a duck... Source: Unspace Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:31 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:31  "Small moves, Ellie, small moves." Source: Technology Review NoSQL Definition Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:31 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:31  No SQL, or Not Only SQL? Source: Martin Fowler Make Your Cubicle a Better Place to Work Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:30 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:30  Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays. Source: Harvard Business Review In .NET, open source does not beget open source Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:30 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:30  Setting up a cross-platform open source .NET project is non-trivial. Here's how to do it. Source: Benjamin van der Veen Holographic code Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:30 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:30  Help me, DRY principles. You're my only hope. Source: The Endeavour Siri and Apple iPhone4S called serious data hogs atbennett9-Jan-12 7:23 atbennett 9-Jan-12 7:23  iPhone 4S users hog double the bandwidth of iPhone 4 users and triple that of iPhone 3 users, according to a study by NDP. Is Siri to blame? (from ITworld) SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith calls criticism 'completely hypothetical' atbennett9-Jan-12 7:07 atbennett 9-Jan-12 7:07  Dear anti-SOPA people: your concerns are unfounded, your groups are illegitimate, and you have no specific arguments. Signed, Rep. Lamar Smith. (from ITworld) What tomorrow's phones really need: smarter Wi-Fi atbennett9-Jan-12 3:16 atbennett 9-Jan-12 3:16  Mobile broadband is still pricey and has its limits. So why don't phones do a better job at switching to Wi-Fi? (from ITworld) Eager for Facebook's IPO? Take a look at what's happening to Groupon and Zynga shares atbennett6-Jan-12 9:40 atbennett 6-Jan-12 9:40  Shares of social media companies Groupon and Zynga continue to stumble in the few weeks since being offered to the public. Source: ITworld Will Apple tarnish brand with Target 'store-within-a-store' outlets? atbennett6-Jan-12 9:39 atbennett 6-Jan-12 9:39  Apple reportedly plans to begin putting smaller Apple Stores in Target retail outlets. Good or bad idea? Source: ITworld Rick Falkvinge says copyright laws are ridiculous atbennett6-Jan-12 8:04 atbennett 6-Jan-12 8:04  Many people ignore copyright laws, so Rick Falkvinge, Swedish Pirate Party leader, says we should stop pretending to follow them. Source: ITworld Why 37signals refuses to use interview 'parlor tricks' when hiring programmers atbennett6-Jan-12 7:23 atbennett 6-Jan-12 7:23  Hiring programmers is tough. Do whiteboard programming tests or logic riddles really help hiring managers make better choices? (read the ITworld article) Could coding be the next mass profession? Terrence Dorsey5-Jan-12 9:45 Terrence Dorsey 5-Jan-12 9:45  The butcher, the baker, the application code maker... Source: Also How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award Terrence Dorsey5-Jan-12 9:44 Terrence Dorsey 5-Jan-12 9:44  "We're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B." Source: devlicio.us The Plan for Code Terrence Dorsey5-Jan-12 9:44 Terrence Dorsey 5-Jan-12 9:44  One small step for man; one giant leap for open source at NASA. Source: NASA Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles, API quizzes, math riddles, or other parlor tricks Terrence Dorsey5-Jan-12 9:43 Terrence Dorsey 5-Jan-12 9:43  Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a coder out of my hat. Source: 37signals 23 Useful Online HTML5 Tools Terrence Dorsey5-Jan-12 9:43 Terrence Dorsey 5-Jan-12 9:43  Build the web on the web. Source: DesignModo Hackers Said to be Planning to Launch Own Satellites to Combat Censorship Terrence Dorsey5-Jan-12 9:42 Terrence Dorsey 5-Jan-12 9:42  "You see, I've turned the moon into what I like to call a 'Death Star'." Source: PCWorld Nginx overtakes Microsoft as No. 2 Web server Terrence Dorsey5-Jan-12 9:42 Terrence Dorsey 5-Jan-12 9:42  The little ngin that could. Source: InfoWorld

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