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Software Patents in the US

September 02, 2013
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After almost five years of debate New Zealand’s Parliament has elected to ban software patents. The patent bill ...

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Responsive CSS

August 31, 2013
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Since I am using dasBlog as my blogging system it has been difficult to get access to popular blogging layouts a la ...

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Hammers And Surgical Knives

August 30, 2013
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Problem solving is what I do, I am software engineer and it is my job to translate a business requirement into a ...

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Android Security Threat

August 29, 2013
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The fragmentation of Android has been covered quite comprehensively in the past what may not have been obvious in the ...

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DRM by Any Other Name

August 28, 2013
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From the WSJ: Barnes & Noble Inc.'s retail group chief Mitchell Klipper sold about two-thirds of his stock position in ...

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Do Not Try and Bend the Spoon

August 27, 2013
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When new developers come on board or are simply asking advice one of the things I am asked about are 'the secrets to ...

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Betting On The Wrong Horse

August 26, 2013
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I am starting to realize that I am backing all the wrong consumer products. It just came to me today that my ability to ...

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Internet Access Available to All

August 25, 2013
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the formation of a new partnership with the focus of getting the entire ...

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Average Income Per Programming language

August 24, 2013
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Interesting post on average developer salaries by programming language, it was worth noting how the data was refined ...

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