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Forum: General Web Trends and News Today, 02:39 PM
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Google Unable To Keep Paying App Developers In Argentina

An anonymous reader writes "Google has sent letters to app developers registered in Argentina saying they won't be able to accept payments on developers' behalf after June 27th. 'The change applies...
Forum: General Web Trends and News Yesterday, 06:28 PM
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Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good?

gadzook33 writes "I had an interesting experience at work recently. A colleague suggested during a meeting that we were building something that would make it far too easy for the customer to perform...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-23-2013, 11:44 PM
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Views: 1,681
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Red Hat's Diane Mueller Talks About OpenShift (Video)

OpenShift, says Wikipedia, "is a cloud computing platform as a service product from Red Hat. A version for private cloud is named OpenShift Enterprise. The software that runs the service is...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-23-2013, 08:29 PM
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Views: 1,768
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Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting

New submitter c0d3g33k writes "Google Project Hosting announced changes to the Download service on Wednesday, offering only 'increasing misuse of the service and a desire to keep our community safe...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-22-2013, 06:24 PM
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Views: 3,108
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MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Performance Comparison

Nerval's Lobster writes "MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL source code, split off in the wake of concerns over what Oracle would do with MySQL licensing. In addition to its role as a 'drop-in...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-22-2013, 03:38 PM
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Views: 2,874
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Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Hackathon?

beaverdownunder writes "I recently attended a 'hackathon' that was really just another pitching contest, and out of frustration am tempted to organize an event myself that is better suited to...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-22-2013, 10:36 AM
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Views: 3,159
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Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House?

An anonymous reader writes "I run a small software consulting company who outsources most of its work to contractors. I market myself as being able to handle any technical project, but only really...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-22-2013, 02:07 AM
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Views: 3,488
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Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is

An anonymous reader writes "Seth Ladd has an excellent write-up of Dart: 'When Dart was originally launched, many developers mistook it for some sort of Java clone. In truth, Dart is inspired by a...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-21-2013, 10:47 PM
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Views: 3,465
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Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive?

jammag writes "Free sodas, candy and energy bars can be surprisingly important to developers, says longtime coder Eric Spiegel. They need the perks, not to mention the caffeine boost. More important,...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-21-2013, 06:38 PM
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Views: 3,594
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Immigration Reform May Spur Software Robotics

dcblogs writes "The Senate's immigration bill may force the large offshore outsourcing firms to reduce their use of H-1B visa-holding staff, forcing them to hire more local workers and raising their...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-20-2013, 02:34 PM
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Views: 4,881
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Open Source Projects For Beginners

itwbennett writes "Whoever said 'everyone has to start somewhere' has clearly never tried contributing to an open source project — the Linux Kernel development team in particular is known for...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-19-2013, 08:09 PM
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Views: 5,507
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IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update

hypnosec writes "IBM is taking its COBOL server platform to the next level by updating the mainframe platform in a bid to extend and enable its mainframes to host cloud based applications and...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-19-2013, 05:59 PM
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Views: 5,357
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Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year

First time accepted submitter russotto points out the claim of industry group TechAmerican Foundation (reported by Computerworld) that "wages for the software industry are falling, not rising. Wages...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-18-2013, 08:31 PM
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Views: 6,323
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Intel Rolls Out "Beacon Mountain" Android Dev Platform For Atom

MojoKid writes "In an effort to coax developers to begin taking Atom seriously as an Android platform, Intel has just released a complete suite of tools that should help ease them into things —...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-15-2013, 11:43 PM
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Views: 9,838
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How European Startups Are Battling Labor Laws For Developers and Programmers

Nerval's Lobster writes "The United States with its H-1B controversy isn't the only country going through that sort of immigration upheaval. As the cult of entrepreneurship spirals upward in Europe,...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-15-2013, 05:18 PM
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Views: 9,367
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How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase?

An anonymous reader writes "A report released this morning looks at the maintainability level of the Firefox codebase through five measures of architectural complexity. It finds that 11% of files in...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-15-2013, 02:24 PM
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Views: 9,583
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Georgia Tech and Udacity Partner for Online M.S. in Computer Science

Georgia Tech and Udacity — the online courseware project led by Sebastian Thrun — have announced a plan to offer an accredited M.S. Computer Science program online. The two organizations...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-14-2013, 05:21 PM
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Views: 10,809
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To Avoid Confusion: Oracle's Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme

twofishy writes "'To avoid the confusion caused by renumbering releases,' Oracle has announced that it is adopting a new numbering scheme for JDK 5.0, JDK 6 and JDK 7. 'The next Limited Update for...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-14-2013, 01:46 AM
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Views: 11,307
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Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws

Trailrunner7 writes "It's no secret that Java has moved to the top of the target list for many attackers. It has all the ingredients they love: ubiquity, cross-platform support and, best of all, lots...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-13-2013, 07:22 PM
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Views: 11,576
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Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me

theodp writes "In a widely-read WSJ Op-Ed, English major Kirk McDonald, president of online ad optimization service PubMatic, informed college grads that he considers them unemployable unless they...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-12-2013, 11:05 AM
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Views: 12,751
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Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace

MojoKid writes "Is the world really ready to shift from native apps to HTML5 Web apps? Probably not, at least not in North America yet, but developing nations may see it differently. That's the hope...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-12-2013, 04:34 AM
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Views: 12,221
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Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current?

skaffen42 writes "The recent Ask Slashdot about becoming a programmer later in life got me thinking about a related question. How do you deal with programmers who have not stayed current with new...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-11-2013, 06:18 PM
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Views: 11,888
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Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind

New submitter mha writes "In a response that truly seems to be from a core Microsoft developer, we are told about why Windows kernel development continues to fall further and further behind that of...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-10-2013, 02:58 PM
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Views: 12,807
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ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken

An anonymous reader sends this news from the Associated Press: "A worldwide gang of criminals stole a total of $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit...
Forum: General Web Trends and News 05-09-2013, 08:12 PM
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Views: 12,580
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Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Programmer At 40?

New submitter fjsalcedo writes "I've read many times, here at Slashdot and elsewhere, that programming, especially learning how to program professionally, is a matter for young people. That...
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