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Michael Levin's Blog – December 2009 Archive (6)
Happy New Year
Happy New Year! What a year 2009 has been. 2010 is surely looking like an exciting time to come.
What are your thoughts about CodeTown? Is it the software community you hope for? If you have comments or suggestions, please let me know. You can post them here as comments or send me a private message.
Thanks for your contributions to CodeTown this year. It's growing, and becoming more interesting with every post you make,… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on December 31, 2009 at 3:30pm — 6 Comments
Amazon: Kindle Books Outsold Real Books This Christmas
Wired: "Happy Christmas. I got a coffee pot. You? If you got a book, it’s likely that it wasn’t made of paper. The succinct title of this Amazon press release tells the whole story: “On Christmas… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on December 29, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Contest Town Coding Contest #1 - Eric Lavigne using Clojure is Winner!
Codetown, we have a winner! Check out Eric Lavigne's winning entry to the first Codetown Coding Contest here...
Eric will describe his code at the next GatorJUG meeting. Eric tells us that he'll give a presentation on Clojure tomorrow at the next Gainesville Ruby User Group meeting (GRUG… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on December 28, 2009 at 1:07pm — No Comments
Delve into Dot Net Town
Yep, it was bound to happen. Curiosity set in and I looked to see how much this new Windows 7 thang is running. $29.95 ain't too bad. But, as we all know, that's just the beginning. The first gram is free. You and I both know that installing a new release leads to more serious drugs. I mean, apps. I mean...you know what I mean.
Anyhoo, last time I worked with Visual Studio it was pretty impressive. Visual Studio 2010 is out in beta,… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on December 25, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments
Google releases Public DNS
Added by Michael Levin on December 4, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments
What is Google Wave?
I've been nominated to be a beta user. Anyone working with the Wave yet?… Continue
Added by Michael Levin on December 4, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments
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