There Goes the (Programming) Neighborhood
It's healthy and good for a software development community to take care of itself. But when the community begins to imagine that its experiences are just like those of people outside the community... it's time to worry.
Career advice: Why geeks change jobs
A lot of folks change jobs to make work fun again, even if it makes their financial state more precarious. Is your job fun? Would you take a chance on trying to find one that's more fun?
Gosh, Things ARE Better for Developers These Days
Let's take a moment to appreciate how much has improved, in a developer's lot, over the last decade. In particular, contemplate how many "basic" programming concepts and "everybody knows" knowledge didn't exist in your life.
Developers by Day, DJs by Night
The music crescendos and the dancers lose themselves in the expanding beats. Overseeing all of this music and movement is not a jet-set superstar DJ from London or Ibiza with an ego the size of his MP3 collection. Increasingly, it's a mild-mannered software developer who's in the DJ booth, manning two turntables and a MacBook.
2008 in review: Mac developers who made news
Thanks to its size and its prominence in the Mac universe, Apple tends to dominate the discussion when it comes to chronicling the major news events hitting the platform in the past year. That’s understandable, but it doesn’t paint a full picture of the Mac market, which also features plenty of third-party developers who made headlines of their own in 2008. Here are some of the Mac developers who stood out from the crowd over the past 12 months.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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