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How to script: A Bash crash course

Posted March 8, 2013 - 11:13 am

An easy step-by-step guide to the Bash command-line shell and shell scripting.
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Step by Step photo guide to setting up twitter widget pro for wordpress

Posted March 7, 2013 - 9:00 am

You were warned that it was coming and it has come. Blackouts of the Twitter API v1 have begun and sites are starting to be affected. This transition is comparable to airport security pre and post 9/11. Welcome to the new normal.
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Who says Agile development can't be faster?

Posted March 4, 2013 - 1:40 pm

The agile software development community claims that changing the way you work doesn't make things faster. Then why do it at all? Compare agile to traditional development methodologies and you'll see that agile can, in fact, be faster.
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Epic codefest: 7 programming languages in 7 days

Posted March 4, 2013 - 1:16 pm

We challenged our developers to learn Clojure, Scala, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, and Go in a day. Here's how easy it is to make the switch.
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White House hackathon a success; could a Patdownathon be next?

Posted March 4, 2013 - 12:48 pm

The recent White House hackathon might provide a blueprint for surviving the sequester
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Book Giveaway: Win a copy of 'jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile: Recipes and Examples'

Posted February 28, 2013 - 5:07 pm

ITworld is giving away 5 copies of "jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile: Recipes and Examples" to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!
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Automatic conversion of web form submissions to AJAX with jQuery

Posted February 27, 2013 - 9:00 am

If you’ve got a data heavy web application, chances are you’re doing a lot of form posting. Here is a quick solution to automatically convert all of your full form posts into quick and user friendly AJAX posts.
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Google cozies up to developers with Google+ Sign-In

Posted February 26, 2013 - 4:20 pm

Google is making it easier for app developers to connect with users on its social network through Google+ Sign-In, a new feature that allows people to sign into third-party apps using their Google+ credentials.
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What's wrong with agile development: Culture, people top the list

Posted February 26, 2013 - 9:42 am

Agile development projects are succeeding, but when they fail, it's often due to staffing and teamwork issues.
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2013 Technology of the Year Award winners

Posted February 25, 2013 - 4:25 pm

The InfoWorld Test Center picks the best hardware, software, development tools, and cloud services of the year
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New Groundwork Web dev framework shows promise

Posted February 25, 2013 - 12:42 pm

The open source project enables development of applications scaling from handheld devices to large-format televisions.
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When is the best time of day to write code?

Posted February 25, 2013 - 12:42 pm

Musicians and vampires usually do their best work after the sun goes down. But does that also apply to programmers?
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Open source 'Lingual' helps SQL developers unlock Hadoop

Posted February 25, 2013 - 12:20 pm

One commonly cited stumbling block to the broader adoption of Apache Hadoop in the enterprise is the difficulty and expense of finding and hiring developers who understand and can think in Hadoop MapReduce. But Big Data application framework specialist Concurrent wants to change that.
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Intel acquires appMobi's HTML5 developer tools business

Posted February 22, 2013 - 3:58 am

The Pennsylvania company will continue to offer its cloud services to mobile app developers
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6 good things about being a programmer

Posted February 21, 2013 - 12:46 pm

Even this jaded former coder can find some things he liked about the job
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Translating enterprise apps to mobile: Three companies' journeys

Posted February 21, 2013 - 10:50 am

Some companies are going whole-hog with mobile apps, including for some core line-of-business functions.
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Oracle updates NetBeans for HTML5

Posted February 21, 2013 - 9:08 am

With the release of version 7.3 of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the IDE (integrated developer environment) so Java developers can more easily build rich HTML5-based user interfaces for their mobile and Web applications.
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The death of the Twitter API or a new beginning?

Posted February 21, 2013 - 9:00 am

If you asked me what Twitter’s greatest strength was, I would say it was its ubiquity. Anyone could integrate Twitter into practically anything with minimal effort. With the upcoming retirement of the Twitter API v1 in March 2013, that ubiquity may be gone.
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Who really wants a self-driving car?

Posted February 20, 2013 - 1:14 pm

There's lots of hype around self-driving cars; some of it sounds good, some of it sounds pie-in-the-sky and some of it sounds downright dumb
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Apple iOS development extended to Visual Studio

Posted February 20, 2013 - 11:44 am

With Xamarin version 2.0, Visual Studio developers can build C# apps to run on Apple devices.
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Startup spins up identity and access-control cloud service

Posted February 20, 2013 - 11:41 am

Startup Stormpath makes its debut today with an identity and access-control cloud-based service primarily intended for use by software development teams that are building web applications.
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StackMob goes after enterprise customers with new marketplace

Posted February 19, 2013 - 2:00 pm

StackMob is among a handful of backend-as-a-service providers hoping to appeal to enterprises
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Adding keyboard shortcuts to your web application

Posted February 15, 2013 - 9:00 am

Keyboard shortcuts might seem kind of old school since they’re mainly associated with desktop applications, but bringing some basic shortcut functionality into your web application can easily enhance the user experience.
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Topaz aims to be the fastest Ruby implementation

Posted February 14, 2013 - 4:56 pm

Now in development and expected to be ready in "a year or two," the planned version of the language would feature a quick interpreter
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Can new software testing frameworks bring us to provably correct software?

Posted February 14, 2013 - 8:16 am

We can get CPUs that are consistent and reliable, and we can get compilers that work on top of them that are provably correct. Pascal creator Nicholas Wirth described how to write a correct compiler in his book, Compiler Construction, back in 1996. It should be a simple step from there to create "functionally correct" programs that can, for any input, produce the correct output.
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