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Some of the developer/technology feeds I follow…

There is an ocean of developer and technology information on the Internet. I use feeds as one of the ways to try and "Sip" from the firehose of content.
EDN - http://edn.embarcadero.com/rss
DelphiFeeds.com - http://feeds.delphifeeds.com/delphifeeds?format=xml
Dr.Dobb’s - All Articles - http://feeds.pheedo.com/drdobbs_all_articles
DDJ CodeTalk Blog Entries - http://www.dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=rss
O’Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies - http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/radar/atom
Slashdot: Developers [...]

From vnunet.com: Top 10 IT priorities for the Obama administration

In a recent article on vnunet.com, Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols, create their top 10 IT priorities list for the Obama adminstration.
10. Use webcasting in government business
9. Update the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
8. Create a Federal Communications Commission with power
7. Immigration - the H1B visa system needs a big expansion
6. Invest in broadband infrastructure
5. Fund university [...]

2009 01 23 David Intersimone Education
People
Random Thoughts Comments (1)

Time spent programming, reading, writing, etc in a "typical" day in 2009

On Tuesday March 7, 2002 Grady Booch invited everyone to tell him how much time they spent doing things, architecting, coding, testing, reading, stuff, of whatever else we do in a day. Grady reported the results of 50 people who reported what they spent time doing on that Tuesday:
Analyzing -16%
Designing - 14%
Coding - 16%
Testing - 10%
Phone - 3%
Reading [...]

2008 12 19 David Intersimone Delphi
Programming
Random Thoughts
ednfront Comments (7)

Some of the fundamentals driving today’s systems development

What factors are driving software systems development? Economic and business SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis drives some of the decisions to build, modify, update, and retire the systems we build and use. There are new platforms (what’s the latest overloaded use of the term "platform" these days?), new languages, new API(s)/Frameworks, new architectures, [...]

2008 12 03 David Intersimone CodeGear
Database
DatabaseGear
Embarcadero
Hardware
Programming
Random Thoughts
S/W Engineering Comments (4)

MIT’s 2008 list of 10 emerging technologies

MIT’s Technology Review magazine presented it’s 2008 special report listing 10 emerging technologies "that we think are most likely to change the way we live". Two, on the list, that I have been "jonesing" for are Offline Web Applications (I prefer the term Rich Internet Applications, or RIAs) and Wireless Power.
For RIAs, Technology Review highlights Kevin Lynch, Chief [...]

2008 03 16 David Intersimone RIAs
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Recent articles about Java, Ruby, etc…

I have been travelling to Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Washington DC for the past four weeks. While catching up on some of my article and blog reading backlog, a couple of articles caught my eye.

Why Isn’t Facebook Built in Java? Why do ‘cool kids’ choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java?
Java Remains [...]

2007 11 09 David Intersimone Java
Languages
PHP
Rails
Random Thoughts
Ruby Comments (0)

Reuse engineering in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)

I saw a recent post on Slashdot pointing to an article on about reuse engineering with a specific focus on the reuse issues in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Read the article at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-reuse-soa.html.
What’s the big deal about SOA? Read the article at http://www.devx.com/ibm/Article/29318
Microsoft’s Indigo programming model for SOA - intro article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/indigo/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/introindigov1-0.asp
Web services, SOA, [...]

2005 10 07 David Intersimone Programming Comments (1)

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