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PIEBALDconsult wrote: There needs to be entry-level/hobbyist languages and tools for any who just need to do some casual coding.
Oh, absolutely.
There is a definite need for little solutions, and I hope that the author of the piece sees that as well. I just don't think (and I think this was his main message as well) that there really needs to be a migration path between little solutions and enterprise/marketable products. I loved Hypercard and VB, but I definitely wasn't going to write Word in either.
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When a phrase enters the tech industry lexicon in a big way, and has a good way of crystallizing a seemingly overarching trend, it’s usually not long before the very same phrase becomes a victim of its own overuse and is dismissed as “all hype.” Yea, though I pass through the Trench of Disillusionment...
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A few months ago we announced that a preview of Skype video calling and messaging was starting to arrive in Outlook.com. Today we are excited to give you an update: Skype for Outlook.com is now fully available in several countries around the globe including the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, France, Canada, and the United States. For those of you outside those countries, we're still working hard to ensure this is available worldwide in the near future. "Call me, maybe?"
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I didn't care for Skype before Microsoft bought them out.
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After a 30-year run in the enterprise, once-dominant server OS is getting 86ed by x86es "That is not dead which can eternal lie"
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To pave the way for rapid interstellar travel, NASA propulsion researcher Harold "Sonny" White plans to manipulate space-time in the lab "Engage"
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In an odd turn of events, Windows 8 has been banned from HWBot, one of the world’s top benchmarking and overclocking communities. "Time keeps on slipping, slipping"
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"...
And you run and you run
To catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
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One of the few earworms I feel proud to spread.
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TTFN - Kent
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For the obligatory "tick tick tick tick" reference, my 5.
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The rise of mobile applications has transformed the way we talk about technology. Rule of thumb: It's software if it costs more than a dollar
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When was the last time you scanned a QR code? What was that?
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Jumps on XP-is-doomed bandwagon as it urges everyone to put down the OS "Survival rule #1: Cardio."
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Good.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It took a lot longer than expected and survived a mid-stream course correction, but the initial shipping version Paul Thurrott's Windows Phone 8 is now complete. This e-book is free and is my gift to the Windows Phone community. All you need to know about WP dev, but were afraid to ask
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It's a job seeker's market, if you've got the right tech skills. IT opportunities span multiple industries and skill levels, staffing firm says Dance, monkey, dance
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After slipping a malicious app past Apple's App Store reviewers, security researchers say Apple should strengthen its defenses. Hack different
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A research team in Australia says it's added enough electrolytes into a brew to give it rehydrating properties and therefore alleviate hangovers. But will it get you drunk? Someone phone the Nobel Prize committee!
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There is another obscure way of tracking users without using cookies or even Javascript. It has already been used by numerous websites but few people know of it. This page explains how it works and how to protect yourself. Best when dunked in milkless milk
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On Friday, at the Usenix security conference in Washington, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan announced ZMap, a tool that allows an ordinary server to scan every address on the Internet in just 44 minutes. The found out where all the cat videos are coming from
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It’s been almost 3 years since Microsoft’s mobile OS officially got a major reboot in the form of Windows Phone 7, and it’s been even longer since we saw the first glimpses of this modern OS, no pun intended, back at Mobile World Congress in 2010. Maybe not DOA, but it's not looking great
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Maybe Windows Phone ain't doing so hot because CodeProject refuses to test their forums on WP devices to make sure it can display properly.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted this week to uphold its policy against implementing dotless domain names, essentially bringing an end to a push from Google to introduce and own http://search, http://app, http://blog, and http://cloud. More dots, we need more dots!
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JetBrains has confirmed that its developer team is taking a momentary breather and that its free .NET decompiler dotPeek 1.1 is now ready. This final 1.1 release includes the (apparently much demanded) Export Assembly to Project function to enable saving decompiled assemblies as Visual Studio projects. "Look inside yourself. You are more than what you have become."
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Kent, thanks for the heads-up on the new version. I've been using first version a bit recently and a mighty fine utility it's turned out to be. It's one tool where you get far more than you paid for!
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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