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If Programming Languages Were Religions...


Excellent, and funny too

http://blog.aegisub.org/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html?m=1

Added by Michael Levin on December 10, 2013 at 12:00pm — No Comments

JEE8 Survey

All,
In order to gather feedback for Java EE 8, we are running a survey.  To make it easier, we have divided it in two parts and it shouldn't really takes more than a few minutes to fill...
The 1st part is now available at …
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Added by Michael Levin on December 10, 2013 at 10:52am — No Comments

Swampcast is a Podcast from the Swamp

Did you know Swampcast has interviews with Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, Brion Vibber, former CTO of Wikipedia, Pandora's CEO and CTO and more? Here's the story of Swampcast:…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 10, 2013 at 10:08am — No Comments

What is node.js?

Engine Yard created an infographic that will help you learn about node.js:

 

"Node.js is a server-side framework for JavaScript that has…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 8, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Magnolia - Dave Booth wants to know...

Many of you probably know Dave - he wants some feedback on Magnolia and so do I. http://www.magnolia-cms.com/product/features/overview.html It's open and full featured and I like it. WHat do you know about it?…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 7, 2013 at 9:28pm — No Comments

Robotics? Cockroach provides organic mechanism to support robotics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24455141

Added by Michael Levin on December 6, 2013 at 11:42am — No Comments

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