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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.

Etoys has become a great branch of Squeak (it branched from 3.8, but in the course of its development for OLPC, it has gained some nice fonts and a nice toolbar, among other things.) It behaves in a slightly more mainstream way, in that Etoys users no longer save the Etoys images, just save the project file (which is referred to in help as "Keep a current project"). The Squeak image itself restarts pristine and untouched each time it is restarted. \n\nSqueakers and developers who want to save their whole image (window positions, preferences, the lot, in classic Smalltalk style) will want the save command in the World menu. Bert Freudenberg explains where the World menu is hidden.

This editor is designed to edit souce code files in a textarea. The main goal is to allow text formatting, search and replace and real-time syntax highlighting ...

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"Sonar enables to collect, analyze and report metrics on source code. Sonar not only offers consolidated reporting on and across projects throughout time, but it becomes the central place to manage code quality."

U-Prove is an innovative cryptographic technology that enables the issuance and presentation of cryptographically protected claims in a manner that provides multi-party security: issuing organizations, users, and relying parties can protect themselves not just against outsider attacks but also against attacks originating from each other. At the same time, the U-Prove technology enables any desired degree of privacy (including authenticated anonymity and pseudonymity) without contravening multi-party security. These user-centric aspects make the U-Prove technology ideally suited to create the digital equivalent of paper-based credentials and the plastic cards in one's wallet.

Tracker is a free, award winning, agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.

The PHP/Java Bridge is an implementation of a streaming, XML-based network protocol, which can be used to connect a native script engine, for example PHP, Scheme or Python, with a Java or ECMA 335 virtual machine. It is up to 50 times faster than local RPC via SOAP, requires less resources on the web-server side. It is faster and more reliable than direct communication via the Java Native Interface, and it requires no additional components to invoke Java procedures from PHP or PHP procedures from Java.

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.

artículo interesante sobre la función de diigo: para información "importante" / para trivialidades (esto es discutido por un participante. muy acertado. describe cómo es posible crear una gran red.

SharpKit enables web development teams to take advantage of C# and Visual Studio benefits such as compile-time syntax verification, code-completion, XML documentation and refactoring. Many developers prefer this managed code environment versus the expensive and error-prone world of JavaScript programming.

Piwik is a real time web analytics software program. It aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

The complete collection (while this time) satellite pictures Japanese territory before and after the tsunami disaster. Satellite images cover an area along the coast of Japan which was hit by a tsunami like Arahama, Iwaki, Yuriage, and others. Part 1

The complete collection (while this time) satellite pictures Japanese territory before and after the tsunami disaster. Satellite images cover an area along the coast of Japan which was hit by a tsunami like Arahama, Iwaki, Yuriage, and others. Part 3

The complete collection (while this time) satellite pictures Japanese territory before and after the tsunami disaster. Satellite images cover an area along the coast of Japan which was hit by a tsunami like Arahama, Iwaki, Yuriage, and others. Part 2

Here is a video recording of the tsunami disaster that struck Japan, on 11 March 2011, recorded live at the time of natural disasters take place. Dashyatnya tsunamis recorded with a clear and very terrible tsunami hit, and also so terrible impact.

One feature of the CLR that is not available in C# or VB.NET are module initializers (or module constructors). A module initializer is simply a global function which is named .cctor and marked with the attributes SpecialName and RTSpecialName. It is run when a module (each .NET assembly is comprised of one or more modules, typically just one) is loaded for the first time, and is guaranteed to run before any other code in the module runs, before any type initializers, static constructors or any other initialization code.