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Your Tech Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life

author-unknown — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:16:00 +0000

itwbennett writes "Eric Bloom, an IT leadership coach and former CIO, has answered that eternal question 'does working on old software hurt your professional marketability' with a somewhat surprising 'no.' But, Bloom adds, 'a techie's skill set from a marketability perspective has a two year half-life. That is to say, that the exact set of skills you have today will only be half as marketable two years from now.'"

Your Tech Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life

author-unknown — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:16:00 +0000

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Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart

author-unknown — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:34:00 +0000

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An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from El Reg: "Google has built a brand-new programming language for 'structured web programming,' one that appears to be suited to browser-based apps. Two of the search giant's engineers will discuss Dart, Google's new language, at the Goto international software development conference next month. News of the new language was posted to the Goto website. There aren't yet any technical details on Dart but the bios of the two Googlers presenting at Goto strongly suggest a bent towards programming for the web and browser."

Jenkins CI

Beanbag — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:31:40 +0000

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CoffeeScript

Beanbag — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:47:03 +0000

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"CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. "

JavaScript Lint

Beanbag — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:46:13 +0000

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"With JavaScript Lint, you can check all your JavaScript source code for common mistakes without actually running the script or opening the web page."

PyInstaller

Beanbag — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:27:31 +0000

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"PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 1.5, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is fully multi-platform, and use the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility. "

Clever Algorithms

Beanbag — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:14:30 +0000

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The book "Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes" by Jason Brownlee PhD describes 45 algorithms from the the field of Artificial Intelligence. All algorithm descriptions are complete and consistent to ensure that they are accessible, usable and understandable by a wide audience.

Beautiful Soup

Beanbag — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:36:26 +0000

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"You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like. Neither does this parser. "

Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software

Beanbag — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:28:41 +0000

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. Continue reading →

Diffuse

Beanbag — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:24:48 +0000

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Diffuse is a small and simple text merge tool written in Python. With Diffuse, you can easily merge, edit, and review changes to your code. Diffuse is free software.

LINQ: .NET Language Integrated Query

Beanbag — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:16:25 +0000

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C# Portable Settings Provider

Beanbag — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:44:13 +0000

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Omaha Overview

Beanbag — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:36:46 +0000

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The Omaha project provides a shared autoupdate and install system for Windows client products at Google that works on multiple Windows platforms, including Windows Vista.

Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool

Beanbag — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:33:52 +0000

Ideone is something more than a pastebin; it's an online compiler and debugging tool which allows to compile and run code online in more than 40 programming languages. Continue reading →

Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool

Beanbag — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:33:52 +0000

Ideone is something more than a pastebin; it's an online compiler and debugging tool which allows to compile and run code online in more than 40 programming languages. Continue reading →

Updates to setup projects

Beanbag — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:12:50 +0000

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Updates to setup projects

Beanbag — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:12:50 +0000

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Ninject

Beanbag — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:22:16 +0000

Open source dependency injector for .NET Continue reading →

How to Write an Equality Method in Java

Beanbag — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:47:38 +0000

Excellent article on how to avoid common pitfalls and preserve the contract of equals() when writing an equality method in Java.

Class java.lang.Object defines an equals method, which subclasses may override. Unfortunately, it turns out that writing a correct equality method is surprisingly difficult in object-oriented languages. In fact, after studying a large body of Java code, the authors of a 2007 paper concluded that almost all implementations of equals methods are faulty.

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