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DryadLINQ is a Microsoft Research project, which aims to make distributed computing on clusters of computers simple enough for all programmers. DryadLINQ combines another Microsoft Research technology, Dryad, with the familiar LINQ technology from the Microsoft .NET framework.

I love this article. Lawrence is 60 and can perhaps afford to be sanguine, but I am glad he is warning the rest of us.

Some quotable quotes here: "while we laugh at the guy who expected that his computer could be hooked up to his boom box to use the cd, he's actually just a bit ahead of us. Yes, ahead, not behind. In the future, he probably could get his computer to talk the boom box into transferring data from its cd." "When I was a teenager, I had a friend who made extra money testing and changing vacuum tubes in TV's and radios. Try earning money that way today- there is actually a very small market for that kind of thing, and there are still people who sell tubes and the like, but that market is pretty small. In the dumbed down computers of the future, there may still be a few antique machines kicking around here and there, but that isn't going to support very many of us." This is largely true and happening all the time. A programmer can use Python or Smalltalk without needing to know C (or Fortran or assembler.) A child can program in Morphic tiles (Etoys and Scratch)! We don't need to know the difference between a serial cable and a printer cable, or how to install a driver' it is all USB (or Bluetooth!) There are some gurus that program USB, but perhaps only a few hundred of them, and the rest of us just use it.

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

"This post could be viewed as hard lessons learned for newly graduated college students, entry-level programmers, or advanced developers who just want a chuckle."

Code developers often have a nightmare when their development environment gets corrupted or some other snags stop them from creating and deploying their application. If such a thing happens at the eleventh hour of code delivery, hell breaks lose. At such testing times how badly as a programmer you would have wished for some alternative.

Security Computer for Programmer

Part one of 6 (and a half) introducing Scala for the C# developer

Miguel de Icaza's working on the Visual Studio integration for Scala.Net to be released this fall along with full access to CLR types from Scala

Programmer Tools

YouDebug is a Java program that lets you script a debug session through Groovy. You can think of it as a programmable, non-interactive debugger, you can create a breakpoint, evaluate expressions, have it dump threads, and a lot more, without requiring any source code. Your customer can just run the tool with the script you supplied, without any knowledge about Java.

I'm going to start Site of the Day with CodeRun . CodeRun is a virtual development environment which looks to be really promising. This site, so far, seems to be an amazing colaboration tool for programmers.

« Among programmers of any experience, it is generally regarded as A Bad Ideatm to attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions. How bad of an idea? It apparently drove one Stack Overflow user to the brink of madness [...] »

JGate provides free AppJet hosting. AppJet is a proven technology stack that includes Rhino, Cloudscape/Derby, Jetty, Lucene, Comet, Processing, JQuery, XMLRPC and JSON. Programmers use it to produce server-powered, highly interactive web applications in a fraction of the time normally needed.

World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated worldwide on 5th of June every year. Run by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the celebration raises awareness on the importance of taking positive environmental measu

A programmer can start from scratch and become a professional with the help of James P. Long's "Python Programming For Beginners" book. Those who want to get a good grip of what programming language is should get from this Python book.