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Agile Plus Open Source Equals Developer Success
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| Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and maintainer of Ubuntu Linux, said
| blending agile development practices with open-source community development
| is a key to successful software projects in the new world.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Agile-Plus-Open-Source-Equals-Developer-Success/
The 'Anti-Java' Professor and the Jobless Programmers
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| Dewar stresses that he’s not against Java itself. But the fact that Java is
| taught as the core language in so many colleges is resulting in a weak field
| of computer science grads, he says.
|
| [...]
|
| But wait a second, Professor Dewar. (Actually, Dewar is both a professor and
| a CEO. He co-founded AdaCore, whose clients include Boeing and Lockheed
| Martin, so his experience includes decades in private industry.) I wanted to
| ask him, since this list of popular programming languges puts Java at No. 1 –
| ahead of biggies like C, C++ and Visual Basic – doesn’t that negate his
| theory?
|
| I mean, if Java is this popular, maybe universities should teach it first. It
| called “being in touch with the real world,” isn’t it?
|
| “This list is pretty meaningless in my opinion,” he says. “Using YouTube and
| Google to measure popularity just means that you pick up the buzz factor.
| Many serious application developers are not even present on the Web, which
| tends to overemphasize academic and hobbyist views. As the list itself says,
| this has nothing to do with quality of languages or level of usage.”
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3761921
Recent:
Programming languages and "lock-in"
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| In other words, while both systems theoretically give me the power to “modify
| and improve” the software to satisfy my needs, only Plone practically gives
| me that power (because I have the skill to make use of it). Even if I knew
| PHP as well as I know Python, I might decide to use Plone because of a
| preference for the object model, libraries, or ease-of-maintenance of Python.
| These are matters of taste: another developer might just as readily prefer
| PHP on exactly the same grounds.
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| In this way, each program attracts its own “developer culture” of programmers
| who are familiar with and/or prefer a particular set of programming language,
| libraries, and development tools.
|
| None of these distinctions is particularly meaningful to a true “end user”,
| who doesn’t care how the software works internally. And yet, they are
| important. Because many “users” are not pure end users. In fact, in deploying
| a CMS-based website, it’s very likely that you plan to do some development.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/programming_language_lock_in
Top Screencast Sites for Open-Source Developers
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| Let's say that you've decided to start using a new programming language or
| framework. How can you learn what to do, or take some initial steps? Years
| ago, the obvious answer was the buy a book, or perhaps a magazine. Today,
| you're likely to read an online tutorial, or one of the many blogs that have
| sprung up about many of these technologies.
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http://ostatic.com/170265-blog/top-screencast-sites-for-open-source-developers
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