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  • Fringe benefits — just how taxing are they?

    Companies like Google behave almost as though the dotcom crash never happened. They still emphasise the importance of fringe benefits in their recruitment and selection process. “Let’s face it — programmers want to program, they don’t want to do their laundry,” says Google boss Eric Schmidt in Google: Ten Golden Rules, a recent article in Newsweek. “We make it easy for them to do both.”

  • Reviving native traditions

    I was once renowned and reviled for my lack of regard for Visual Basic. I have since reformed, realising that we all benefit from languages that target developers at different skill levels and shorten the distance between concept and delivery. Modern server computing power and capacity more than offset the performance limitations of Visual Basic and its follow-ons, .Net and Java.

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