"Smart Development" provides concepts and working code for the practicing programmer, five-to-six days each week of the year. While this blog mostly leaves mainstream domains like Java, C#, and SaaS to specialists, there's an abundance of good ideas having to do with such secondary technologies as Python, SNMP, Expect, and IPv6 that deserve to be passed on. "Smart Development" particularly favors lightweight techniques: underappreciated languages or styles that yield robust results with a small entry cost.
The GDB debugger is far from complete. It has capabilities to work with unusual architectures and configurations that are only beginning to be explored. You can be one of the innovators!
Multi-core, scripted, cross-platform, ...: gdb 7.0 is dense with buzzword compatibility. It does much more than that, though: it's actually a good value, even for programmers who think they can live without it.
Work patterns in the world of Web 2.x exploit all sorts of technologies--teleconferencing, remote access, and so on--that were impractical even a few years ago. Cameron spots a couple of remnants from an earlier time that remain valuable now.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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