(source: Dilbert by Scott Adams)
Project management decisions
(source: Dilbert by Scott Adams)
.NET programmers in demand
“According to technical jobs website, Dice.com, companies in the US have posted more than 10,000 positions requesting .NET experience - a 25 percent increase compared to last year’s .NET job count.” Read more…
(source: I Programmer, via Slashdot)
Windows 8: the developer's view – apps, Metro and the future
“Will Windows 8 kill or help Silverlight? What is WinRT? Are legacy apps going to overwhelm Microsoft’s app store? A Windows developer watches the Build conference.” Read more…
(source: Guardian)
(Source: somethingofthatilk.com, via softwareprocess)
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Top ten most influential programming books of all time
As voted on by several thousand members of StackOverflow in this article here.
- Code Complete (2nd edition)
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2nd edition)
- The C Programming Language (2nd edition)
- Introduction to Algorithms
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
- Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd edition)
- Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
(source: Internet Security, via Slashdot)
Is Google stiffing Android developers?
“There’s a storm a-brewin’ in the Android Developer scene. At the heart of the storm is a claim that Google isn’t paying Android Developers the full amount due to them.” Read more…
(source: Android and Me)
Scientist build software to rescue stalled programs
“MIT researchers have developed an experimental software framework called Jolt that allows applications to recover in some cases when they hang. When Jolt detects that a program is stuck in a certain kind of infinite loop, it can force it to exit the loop and continue executing.” Read more…
(source: Wired)
Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8
“When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive…. But one aspect of the demonstration has the legions of Windows developers deeply concerned, and with good reason: they were told that all their experience, all their knowledge, and every program they have written in the past would be useless on Windows 8.” Read more…
(source: Ars Technica)
