In Pictures: Superclass - 14 of the world’s best living programmers
When developers discuss who the world’s top programmer is, these names tend to come up a lot
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In Pictures: 15 hot programming trends - and 15 going cold
Hot or not? From the Web to the motherboard to the training ground, get the scoop on what's in and what's out in app dev.
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In Pictures: Superclass - 14 of the world’s best living programmers
When developers discuss who the world’s top programmer is, these names tend to come up a lot
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In Pictures: 15 hot programming trends - and 15 going cold
Hot or not? From the Web to the motherboard to the training ground, get the scoop on what's in and what's out in app dev.
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Critics slam World Wide Web Consortium over inclusion of DRM in HTML5
The latest version of the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML Working Group charter includes provisions for ongoing work on restrictive content protection systems – a decision that has angered groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Free Software Foundation.
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Xamarin 2.0 lets you develop Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio
Companies can create software in either C# or Visual Basic and translate it into native Android or iOS, with the new version 2.0 of Xamarin's multi-platform development kit.
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Computer science leader Jim Horning dies at 70
James "Jim" Horning, described by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as "a leading figure in the evolution of computer science as a discipline and a profession, " has died at the age of 70 in Palo Alto.
Features about programming
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GitHub's new features aim for business and open-source users
GitHub, the popular code repository service, has to serve two masters. It's well-known for hosting popular open-source projects, but it's also working to acquire more large and small business users to privately store and manage their proprietary code.
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7 programming myths - busted!
Even among people as logical and rational as software developers, you should never underestimate the power of myth. Some programmers will believe what they choose to believe against all better judgment.
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Who needs an enterprise AJAX solution?
One thing that the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development community has aplenty is choice. Want a free, open source AJAX framework? We have (alphabetically) Dojo, Ext, Google Web Toolkit, jQuery, MooTools, OpenRico, Prototype, Scriptaculous, and the Yahoo User Interface Library, and frankly they're all pretty good. There are hundreds more, but unfortunately I can't keep up with them all.