http://developers.slashdot.org/News for nerds, stuff that mattersen-usCopyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. serviceSat, 25 May 2013 19:49:02 GMTSat, 25 May 2013 19:49:02 GMT2hourly11970-01-01T00:00:00Zhelp@slashdot.orgTechnologyDice2013-05-25T19:49:02Zen-usCopyright 1997-2013, Dice. All Rights Reserved. Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. servicehttp://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gifhttp://developers.slashdot.org/http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/F9zToe6DTDY/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "Twilio's Jon Gottfried has written an article about the lessons he's learned after six months of developing software for Google Glass. He has some insightful points: 'I expected it to be very similar to building mobile applications for Android. In fact, I began learning to build Android applications in preparation. My efforts were for naught, because the Mirror API is a RESTful web service. This means that developing applications for Glass is actually more similar to building a website than it is to building an Android application.' He also talks about how this fits in with the future of technology: 'I would argue that Google took the only option available to them. The only truly scalable products of the future will be developer platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Twilio, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Arduino &ndash; all of these products have been successful in large part by embracing and empowering their developer communities. No company is omniscient enough to imagine every potential use of their products. This gives developers an immense amount of power to define the success or failure of an entire product line.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Six+Months+Developing+Software+For+Wearable+Computing%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13StUZg"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F25%2F1420214%2Fsix-months-developing-software-for-wearable-computing%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/1420214/six-months-developing-software-for-wearable-computing?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/1420214/six-months-developing-software-for-wearable-computing?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c674b69/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664516414/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c674b69/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664516414/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c674b69/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664516414/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c674b69/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/F9zToe6DTDY" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 25 May 2013 19:47:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c674b69/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C250C1420A2140Csix0Emonths0Edeveloping0Esoftware0Efor0Ewearable0Ecomputing0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillgoogle2013-05-25T19:47:00Zi-need-a-HUD-that-points-out-youtube-commenters-in-real-lifetechnology0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c674b69/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C250C1420A2140Csix0Emonths0Edeveloping0Esoftware0Efor0Ewearable0Ecomputing0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/lLuuT-_YkI0/story01.htm00_NOP writes "'Universal Credit' &mdash; the plan to consolidate all Britain's welfare payments into one &mdash; is the world's biggest 'agile' software development project. It is now close to collapse, the British government admitted yesterday. The failure, if and when it comes, could cost billions and have dire social consequences. 'Some steps have been taken to try to rescue the project. The back end &ndash; the benefits calculation &ndash; has reportedly been shifted to a "waterfall" development process &ndash; which offers some assurances that the government at least takes its fiduciary duties seriously as it should mean no code will be deployed that has not been finished. The front end &ndash; the bit used by humans &ndash; is still meant to be &ldquo;agile&rdquo; &ndash; which makes some sense, but where is the testing? Agile is supposed to be about openness between developer and client and we &ndash; the taxpayers &ndash; are the clients: why can&rsquo;t we see what our money is paying for?'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=World's+Biggest+'Agile'+Software+Project+Close+To+Failure%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12UsufK"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F25%2F139218%2Fworlds-biggest-agile-software-project-close-to-failure%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/139218/worlds-biggest-agile-software-project-close-to-failure?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/139218/worlds-biggest-agile-software-project-close-to-failure?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c65258c/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664417661/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c65258c/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664417661/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c65258c/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664417661/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c65258c/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/lLuuT-_YkI0" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 25 May 2013 14:31:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c65258c/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C250C1392180Cworlds0Ebiggest0Eagile0Esoftware0Eproject0Eclose0Eto0Efailure0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskilluk2013-05-25T14:31:00Z3be-careful-not-to-learn-anything-from-thisnews3,3,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c65258c/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C250C1392180Cworlds0Ebiggest0Eagile0Esoftware0Eproject0Eclose0Eto0Efailure0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/r-RfY8DyfZA/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "Google has sent letters to app developers registered in Argentina saying they won't be able to accept payments on developers' behalf after June 27th. 'The change applies to both paid apps and apps that use in-app purchases. The move appears to be related to new, restrictive regulations the Argentine government has imposed on currency exchanges.' According to the Telegraph, 'The new regulations required anyone wanting to change Argentine pesos into another currency to submit an online request for permission to AFIP, the Argentine equivalent of HM Revenue &amp; Customs. To submit the request, however, you first needed to get a PIN from AFIP, either online or in person. Having finally obtained your number, submitted your online request and printed out your permission slip, you could then present it at the bank or official cambio and buy your dollars. Well, that was the theory. In practice, the result was chaos. ... damming the flood has come at a huge cost to the economy, especially since the currency restrictions were coupled with another set of regulations that effectively imposed a near-total ban on any imported goods.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Unable+To+Keep+Paying+App+Developers+In+Argentina%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F126H7Qy"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F25%2F132232%2Fgoogle-unable-to-keep-paying-app-developers-in-argentina%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/132232/google-unable-to-keep-paying-app-developers-in-argentina?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/25/132232/google-unable-to-keep-paying-app-developers-in-argentina?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c654fef/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664510650/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c654fef/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664510650/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c654fef/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664510650/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c654fef/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/r-RfY8DyfZA" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 25 May 2013 13:26:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c654fef/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C250C1322320Cgoogle0Eunable0Eto0Ekeep0Epaying0Eapp0Edevelopers0Ein0Eargentina0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillgoogle2013-05-25T13:26:00Zdon't-cry-for-themdevelopers0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c654fef/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C250C1322320Cgoogle0Eunable0Eto0Ekeep0Epaying0Eapp0Edevelopers0Ein0Eargentina0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/TkHklkm2nmk/story01.htmgadzook33 writes "I had an interesting experience at work recently. A colleague suggested during a meeting that we were building something that would make it far too easy for the customer to perform a certain task; a task that my colleague felt was deleterious. Without going into specifics, I believe an apt analogy would be giving everyone in the country a flying car. While this would no doubt be enjoyable, without proper training and regulation it would also be tremendously dangerous (also assume training and regulating is not practical in this case). I retorted that ours is not to reason why, and that we had the responsibility to develop the best possible solution, end of story. However, in the following days I have begun to doubt my position and wonder if we don't have some responsibility to artificially 'cripple' the solution and in doing so protect the user from themselves (build a car that stays on the ground). I do not for a second imagine that I am playing the part of Oppenheimer; this is a much more practical issue and less of an ethical one. But is there something to this?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+When+Is+the+User+Experience+Too+Good%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10RqiBp"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F24%2F1544253%2Fask-slashdot-when-is-the-user-experience-too-good%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/24/1544253/ask-slashdot-when-is-the-user-experience-too-good?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/24/1544253/ask-slashdot-when-is-the-user-experience-too-good?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c5e14fe/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664303769/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c5e14fe/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664303769/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c5e14fe/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664303769/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c5e14fe/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/TkHklkm2nmk" height="1" width="1"/>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:23:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c5e14fe/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C240C15442530Cask0Eslashdot0Ewhen0Eis0Ethe0Euser0Eexperience0Etoo0Egood0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillsoftware2013-05-24T16:23:00Zthought-process-behind-drmaskslashdot0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c5e14fe/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C240C15442530Cask0Eslashdot0Ewhen0Eis0Ethe0Euser0Eexperience0Etoo0Egood0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/XAbUQL3z2Qg/story01.htmOpenShift, says Wikipedia, "is a cloud computing platform as a service product from Red Hat. A version for private cloud is named OpenShift Enterprise. The software that runs the service is open-sourced under the name OpenShift Origin, and is available on GitHub." This is a video interview in which Diane Mueller Explains OpenShift in depth. You may want to watch this OpenStack demo video as well.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Red+Hat's+Diane+Mueller+Talks+About+OpenShift+(Video)%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13O5lMX"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F23%2F1824202%2Fred-hats-diane-mueller-talks-about-openshift-video%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/23/1824202/red-hats-diane-mueller-talks-about-openshift-video?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/23/1824202/red-hats-diane-mueller-talks-about-openshift-video?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c537e0d/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664272884/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c537e0d/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664272884/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c537e0d/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664272884/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c537e0d/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/XAbUQL3z2Qg" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 23 May 2013 20:57:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c537e0d/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C230C182420A20Cred0Ehats0Ediane0Emueller0Etalks0Eabout0Eopenshift0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmRoblimosoftware2013-05-23T20:57:00Zit's-always-cool-and-calm-up-in-the-cloudstechnology0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c537e0d/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C230C182420A20Cred0Ehats0Ediane0Emueller0Etalks0Eabout0Eopenshift0Evideo0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/N74WQoWx4_o/story01.htmNew submitter c0d3g33k writes "Google Project Hosting announced changes to the Download service on Wednesday, offering only 'increasing misuse of the service and a desire to keep our community safe and secure' by way of explanation. Effective immediately, existing projects that offer no downloads and all new projects will no longer be able to create downloads. Existing projects which currently have downloads will lose the ability to create new downloads by January 2014, though existing downloads will remain available 'for the foreseeable future.' Google Drive is recommended as an alternative, but this will likely have to be done manually by project maintainers since the ability to create and manage downloads won't be part of the Project Hosting tools. This is a rather baffling move, since distributing project files via download is integral to FOSS culture."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Google+Code+Deprecates+Download+Service+For+Project+Hosting%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12yINx5"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F23%2F1752201%2Fgoogle-code-deprecates-download-service-for-project-hosting%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/23/1752201/google-code-deprecates-download-service-for-project-hosting?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/23/1752201/google-code-deprecates-download-service-for-project-hosting?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c52e22b/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664457411/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c52e22b/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664457411/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c52e22b/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664457411/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c52e22b/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/N74WQoWx4_o" height="1" width="1"/>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:37:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c52e22b/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C230C175220A10Cgoogle0Ecode0Edeprecates0Edownload0Eservice0Efor0Eproject0Ehosting0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothycloud2013-05-23T19:37:00Z2look-but-don't-slurpdevelopers2,2,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c52e22b/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C230C175220A10Cgoogle0Ecode0Edeprecates0Edownload0Eservice0Efor0Eproject0Ehosting0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/V0hl_JlJV3I/story01.htmNerval's Lobster writes "MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL source code, split off in the wake of concerns over what Oracle would do with MySQL licensing. In addition to its role as a 'drop-in replacement' for MySQL, MariaDB also includes some new features that (some claim) make it better than MySQL. Jeff Cogswell compares MySQL and MariaDB and suggests (in his opinion) that there's 'more than enough reason to ditch MySQL and switch over to MariaDB and stay there.' Why? While he breaks down MariaDB's new features and thinks many of them aren't that fantastic, and while MariaDB's performance isn't that much better than that of MySQL ('MariaDB's performance appears a bit better on multi-core machines, but I strongly suspect that one could tweak MySQL to match'), the questions over Oracle and MySQL licensing give him pause. 'MariaDB shows every indication that it will be around for quite awhile, while you can't really say the same of Oracle's MySQL,' he writes. 'Free-and-open MySQL competes with Oracle's proprietary and extremely competitive tools. That alone is grounds for concern &mdash; will Oracle do something to impede MySQL's development?'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=MariaDB+vs.+MySQL%3A+A+Performance+Comparison%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10M5jjz"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F1651203%2Fmariadb-vs-mysql-a-performance-comparison%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1651203/mariadb-vs-mysql-a-performance-comparison?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1651203/mariadb-vs-mysql-a-performance-comparison?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c445365/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664322072/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c445365/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664322072/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c445365/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664322072/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c445365/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/V0hl_JlJV3I" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:35:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c445365/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C220C165120A30Cmariadb0Evs0Emysql0Ea0Eperformance0Ecomparison0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerdatabase2013-05-22T17:35:00Z1well-duhdevelopers1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c445365/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C220C165120A30Cmariadb0Evs0Emysql0Ea0Eperformance0Ecomparison0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/ZrA7RXnNX2I/story01.htmbeaverdownunder writes "I recently attended a 'hackathon' that was really just another pitching contest, and out of frustration am tempted to organize an event myself that is better suited to developers and far less entrepreneur-centric than some of the latest offerings. What I'd like to know from the /. community is, what would you like to see in a hackathon? What are some good hackathons you've attended that weren't just thinly-veiled pitch-development workshops? I have an idea around assigning attendees to quasi-random teams based on their skill sets, then giving them 48 hours to complete a serious coding / engineering challenge (probably in the not-for-profit space) &mdash; but maybe you've got some better ideas?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+What+Makes+a+Great+Hackathon%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14xrKxE"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F1420253%2Fask-slashdot-what-makes-a-great-hackathon%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1420253/ask-slashdot-what-makes-a-great-hackathon?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1420253/ask-slashdot-what-makes-a-great-hackathon?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c43351f/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665292035/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c43351f/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665292035/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c43351f/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665292035/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c43351f/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/ZrA7RXnNX2I" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c43351f/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C220C1420A2530Cask0Eslashdot0Ewhat0Emakes0Ea0Egreat0Ehackathon0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerprogramming2013-05-22T15:00:00Z2free-pizzadevelopers2,2,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c43351f/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C220C1420A2530Cask0Eslashdot0Ewhat0Emakes0Ea0Egreat0Ehackathon0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/1ND0uoY_U-E/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "I run a small software consulting company who outsources most of its work to contractors. I market myself as being able to handle any technical project, but only really take the fun ones, then shop it around to developers who are interested. I write excellent product specs, provide bug tracking &amp; source control and in general am a programming project manager with empathy for developers. I don't ask them to work weekends and I provide detailed, reproducible bug reports and I pay on time. The only 'rule' (if you can call it that) is: I do not pay for bugs. Developers can make more work for themselves by causing bugs, and with the specifications I write there is no excuse for not testing their code. Developers are always fine with it until we get toward the end of a project and the customer is complaining about bugs. Then all of a sudden I am asking my contractors to work for 'free' and they can make more money elsewhere. Ugh. Every project ends up being a battle, so, I think the solution is to finally hire someone full-time and pay for everything (bugs or not) and just keep them busy. But how can I make that transition? The guy I'd need to hire would have to know a lot of languages and be proficient in all of them. Plus, I can't afford to pay someone $100k/year right now. Ideas?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+Moving+From+Contract+Developers+To+Hiring+One+In-House%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FYYPZDu"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F22%2F0259226%2Fask-slashdot-moving-from-contract-developers-to-hiring-one-in-house%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/0259226/ask-slashdot-moving-from-contract-developers-to-hiring-one-in-house?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/0259226/ask-slashdot-moving-from-contract-developers-to-hiring-one-in-house?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c3e96cf/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664305153/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c3e96cf/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664305153/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c3e96cf/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664305153/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c3e96cf/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/1ND0uoY_U-E" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:15:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c3e96cf/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C220C0A2592260Cask0Eslashdot0Emoving0Efrom0Econtract0Edevelopers0Eto0Ehiring0Eone0Ein0Ehouse0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillbug2013-05-22T09:15:00Zwipe-his-brain-and-download-stack-overflow-into-itaskslashdot0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c3e96cf/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C220C0A2592260Cask0Eslashdot0Emoving0Efrom0Econtract0Edevelopers0Eto0Ehiring0Eone0Ein0Ehouse0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/EugAJakw1T0/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "Seth Ladd has an excellent write-up of Dart: 'When Dart was originally launched, many developers mistook it for some sort of Java clone. In truth, Dart is inspired by a range of languages such as Smalltalk, Strongtalk, Erlang, C#, and JavaScript. Get past the semicolons and curly braces, and you'll see a terse language without ceremony. ... Dart understands that sometimes you just don&rsquo;t feel like appeasing a ceremonial type checker. Dart&rsquo;s inclusion of an optional type system means you can use type annotations when you want, or use dynamic when that&rsquo;s easier. For example, you can explore a new idea without having to first think about type hierarchies. Just experiment and use var for your types. Once the idea is tested and you&rsquo;re comfortable with the design, you can add type annotations."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Dart+Is+Not+the+Language+You+Think+It+Is%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10SxWMR"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F2123245%2Fdart-is-not-the-language-you-think-it-is%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2123245/dart-is-not-the-language-you-think-it-is?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/2123245/dart-is-not-the-language-you-think-it-is?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c39f015/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664196889/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c39f015/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664196889/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c39f015/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664196889/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c39f015/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/EugAJakw1T0" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:20:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c39f015/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C21232450Cdart0Eis0Enot0Ethe0Elanguage0Eyou0Ethink0Eit0Eis0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillprogramming2013-05-21T23:20:00Z1it's-actually-cobol-in-a-funny-hatdevelopers1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c39f015/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C21232450Cdart0Eis0Enot0Ethe0Elanguage0Eyou0Ethink0Eit0Eis0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/RP0mGEDym9U/story01.htmjammag writes "Free sodas, candy and energy bars can be surprisingly important to developers, says longtime coder Eric Spiegel. They need the perks, not to mention the caffeine boost. More important, free sodas from management are like the canary in the coal mine. If they get cut, then layoffs might be next. 'The sodas are just the wake-up call. If the culture changes to be focused more on cost-cutting than on innovation and creativity, then would you still want to work here? I wouldn't.' Are free perks really that important?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Do+Developers+Need+Free+Perks+To+Thrive%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F16KeVEs"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F161204%2Fdo-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/161204/do-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/161204/do-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c384113/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664379305/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c384113/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664379305/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c384113/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664379305/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c384113/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/RP0mGEDym9U" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:04:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c384113/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C16120A40Cdo0Edevelopers0Eneed0Efree0Eperks0Eto0Ethrive0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothybusiness2013-05-21T19:04:00Zman-does-not-live-by-free-bread-alonedevelopers0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c384113/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C16120A40Cdo0Edevelopers0Eneed0Efree0Eperks0Eto0Ethrive0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/gG3fE0FzgbI/story01.htmdcblogs writes "The Senate's immigration bill may force the large offshore outsourcing firms to reduce their use of H-1B visa-holding staff, forcing them to hire more local workers and raising their costs. But one large Indian firm, Infosys, will try to offset cost increases with software robotics. Infosys recently announced a partnership with IPsoft, a New York-based provider of autonomic IT services. With IPsoft's tools, work that is now done by human beings, mostly Level 1 support, could be done by a software machine. Infosys says that IPsoft tools can 'reduce human intervention.' More colorfully, Chandrashekar Kakal, global head of Infosys's business IT services, told the Times of India, that 'what robotics did for the auto assembly line, we are now doing for the IT engineering line.' James Slaby, a research director of HFS Research who has been following the use of autonomics closely, wrote in a recent report that the IPsoft partnership may help Infosys 'reap fatter margins by augmenting and replacing expensive, human IT support engineers with cheaper, more accurate, efficient automated processes,' and by improving service delivery."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Immigration+Reform+May+Spur+Software+Robotics%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12JnI4v"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F21%2F1440234%2Fimmigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1440234/immigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/1440234/immigration-reform-may-spur-software-robotics?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c366092/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664701790/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c366092/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664701790/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c366092/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664701790/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c366092/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/gG3fE0FzgbI" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:12:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c366092/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C1440A2340Cimmigration0Ereform0Emay0Espur0Esoftware0Erobotics0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyai2013-05-21T16:12:00Zway-of-all-fleshdevelopers0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c366092/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C210C1440A2340Cimmigration0Ereform0Emay0Espur0Esoftware0Erobotics0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/J8DS2AaV3Cs/story01.htmitwbennett writes "Whoever said 'everyone has to start somewhere' has clearly never tried contributing to an open source project &mdash; the Linux Kernel development team in particular is known for its savagery. But if you're determined to donate your time and talents, there are some things you can do to get off on the right foot. Of course you should pick something you're interested in and that you use. Check, and double check. You should also research the project, learn about the process for contributing, and do your utmost to avoid asking questions that you can find the answers to. But beyond that there are some hallmarks of beginner-friendly open source projects like Drupal, Python, and LibreOffice &mdash; namely, a friendly and active community, training and mentorship programs, and a low barrier to entry."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Open+Source+Projects+For+Beginners%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14nvsdb"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F20%2F1131222%2Fopen-source-projects-for-beginners%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1131222/open-source-projects-for-beginners?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1131222/open-source-projects-for-beginners?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c281ad1/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665208484/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c281ad1/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665208484/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c281ad1/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665208484/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c281ad1/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/J8DS2AaV3Cs" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:49:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c281ad1/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C11312220Copen0Esource0Eprojects0Efor0Ebeginners0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusopensource2013-05-20T12:49:00Z1just-starting-outnews1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c281ad1/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C20A0C11312220Copen0Esource0Eprojects0Efor0Ebeginners0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/zWeXruELUU0/story01.htmhypnosec writes "IBM is taking its COBOL server platform to the next level by updating the mainframe platform in a bid to extend and enable its mainframes to host cloud based applications and services. The latest update is looking to add XMLS Server as well as Java 7 capabilities to the System/z COBOL platform and this update would extend the overall lifespan of COBOL by taking it up a notch and gearing it towards the cloud computing arena."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=IBM+Takes+System%2Fz+To+the+Cloud+With+COBOL+Update%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11PlaFk"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1855246%2Fibm-takes-systemz-to-the-cloud-with-cobol-update%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1855246/ibm-takes-systemz-to-the-cloud-with-cobol-update?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1855246/ibm-takes-systemz-to-the-cloud-with-cobol-update?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c213b02/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664215822/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c213b02/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664215822/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c213b02/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664215822/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c213b02/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/zWeXruELUU0" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:40:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c213b02/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C18552460Cibm0Etakes0Esystemz0Eto0Ethe0Ecloud0Ewith0Ecobol0Eupdate0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyibm2013-05-19T19:40:00Z3spirits-of-the-ancient-onesdevelopers3,3,1,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c213b02/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C18552460Cibm0Etakes0Esystemz0Eto0Ethe0Ecloud0Ewith0Ecobol0Eupdate0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/Kb6KfcpXJPQ/story01.htmFirst time accepted submitter russotto points out the claim of industry group TechAmerican Foundation (reported by Computerworld) that "wages for the software industry are falling, not rising. Wages fell 2% to $99,000 in 2012." Averages are one thing; the article points out though that wages vary vastly within the industry, and that some jobs are harder to fill (thus, better paid) than others. An excerpt: "Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, a research firm that also analyzes IT wage and employment trends, cited a number of reason for the decline in wages for software professionals. First, technology is becoming easier to implement without having an IT professional, he said. Also, the option of turning to outsourcing creates less pressure to increase wages. As the recession continues, companies continue 'to look at productivity and will often look to hire individuals who are lower cost employees,' said Janulaitis. That could include displaced baby boomer workers who have been out of work for some time and 'will take a lower paying job just to get back into the workforce.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Trade+Group%3A+US+Software+Developer+Wages+Fell+2%25+Last+Year%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F11P5x0I"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F19%2F1631212%2Ftrade-group-us-software-developer-wages-fell-2-last-year%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1631212/trade-group-us-software-developer-wages-fell-2-last-year?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1631212/trade-group-us-software-developer-wages-fell-2-last-year?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c209622/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664213018/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c209622/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664213018/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c209622/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664213018/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c209622/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/Kb6KfcpXJPQ" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 19 May 2013 16:32:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c209622/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C16312120Ctrade0Egroup0Eus0Esoftware0Edeveloper0Ewages0Efell0E20Elast0Eyear0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothymoney2013-05-19T16:32:00Z7ban-farm-equipmentnews7,6,3,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c209622/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C190C16312120Ctrade0Egroup0Eus0Esoftware0Edeveloper0Ewages0Efell0E20Elast0Eyear0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/bKT4S1xDRG4/story01.htmMojoKid writes "In an effort to coax developers to begin taking Atom seriously as an Android platform, Intel has just released a complete suite of tools that should help ease them into things &mdash; especially since it can be used for ARM development as well. It's called Beacon Mountain, named after the highest peak outside of Beacon, New York. As you'd expect, Beacon Mountain supports Jelly Bean (4.2) development, and with this suite, you're provided with a collection of important Intel tools: Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager, Integrated Performance Primitives, Graphics and System Performance Analyzers, Threaded Building Blocks and Software Manager. In addition, Android SDK and NDK, Eclipse and Cygwin third-party tools are included to complete the package."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Intel+Rolls+Out+%22Beacon+Mountain%22+Android+Dev+Platform+For+Atom%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F14gI9Gq"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F18%2F1515228%2Fintel-rolls-out-beacon-mountain-android-dev-platform-for-atom%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/1515228/intel-rolls-out-beacon-mountain-android-dev-platform-for-atom?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/18/1515228/intel-rolls-out-beacon-mountain-android-dev-platform-for-atom?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c194777/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664194111/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c194777/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664194111/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c194777/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664194111/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2c194777/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/bKT4S1xDRG4" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 18 May 2013 17:18:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c194777/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C15152280Cintel0Erolls0Eout0Ebeacon0Emountain0Eandroid0Edev0Eplatform0Efor0Eatom0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyandroid2013-05-18T17:18:00Z7atom-as-elementdevelopers7,7,3,1,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2c194777/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C180C15152280Cintel0Erolls0Eout0Ebeacon0Emountain0Eandroid0Edev0Eplatform0Efor0Eatom0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/tawsme82uMc/story01.htmNerval's Lobster writes "The United States with its H-1B controversy isn't the only country going through that sort of immigration upheaval. As the cult of entrepreneurship spirals upward in Europe, the intricate vagaries of immigration policy on the continent are being newly scrutinized by our company-building classes. Freshly venture-backed European Internet companies want talent, and they are going to remarkable lengths to get it &mdash; but not always legally. Milo Yiannopoulos talked to whole bunch of entrepreneurs and investors in Europe about the fudges, shortcuts, workarounds and, in some cases, 'strategic decision-making' are &mdash; just about &mdash; getting their companies the talent they need. For example, one well-known Parisian venture capitalist told Milo that he knows of 'at least nine' startups in France employing developers illegally, keeping them off the books not only to avoid France's notoriously onerous labor laws but also because it would have been impossible, or simply too expensive, to import them officially."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=How+European+Startups+Are+Battling+Labor+Laws+For+Developers+and+Programmers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12vxreH"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F15%2F202237%2Fhow-european-startups-are-battling-labor-laws-for-developers-and-programmers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/202237/how-european-startups-are-battling-labor-laws-for-developers-and-programmers?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/202237/how-european-startups-are-battling-labor-laws-for-developers-and-programmers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf8bf92/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165663999815/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf8bf92/kg/356/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165663999815/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf8bf92/kg/356/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165663999815/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf8bf92/kg/356/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/tawsme82uMc" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:54:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf8bf92/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C150C20A22370Chow0Eeuropean0Estartups0Eare0Ebattling0Elabor0Elaws0Efor0Edevelopers0Eand0Eprogrammers0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillbusiness2013-05-15T20:54:00Z1sword-perhaps-mightier-than-pen-in-this-fightdevelopers1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf8bf92/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C150C20A22370Chow0Eeuropean0Estartups0Eare0Ebattling0Elabor0Elaws0Efor0Edevelopers0Eand0Eprogrammers0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/fxb0-bCfHKk/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "A report released this morning looks at the maintainability level of the Firefox codebase through five measures of architectural complexity. It finds that 11% of files in Firefox are highly interconnected, a value that went up significantly following version 3.0 and that making a change to a randomly selected file can, on average, directly impact eight files and indirectly impact over 1,400 files. All the data is made available and the report comes with an interactive Web-based exploratory tool." The complexity exploration tool is pretty neat.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=How+Maintainable+Is+the+Firefox+Codebase%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F181HoTg"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F15%2F1540249%2Fhow-maintainable-is-the-firefox-codebase%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/1540249/how-maintainable-is-the-firefox-codebase?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/1540249/how-maintainable-is-the-firefox-codebase?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf6663f/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664187895/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf6663f/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664187895/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf6663f/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664187895/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf6663f/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/fxb0-bCfHKk" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:41:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf6663f/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C150C1540A2490Chow0Emaintainable0Eis0Ethe0Efirefox0Ecodebase0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmUnknown Lamerfirefox2013-05-15T16:41:00Zself-referential-foxnews0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf6663f/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C150C1540A2490Chow0Emaintainable0Eis0Ethe0Efirefox0Ecodebase0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/M7I_G7yivKs/story01.htmGeorgia Tech and Udacity &mdash; the online courseware project led by Sebastian Thrun &mdash; have announced a plan to offer an accredited M.S. Computer Science program online. The two organizations are also working with AT&amp;T. This is the first time a major university has made an actual degree available solely through the MOOC format. Getting a degree in this manner is going to be much cheaper than a traditional degree: "... students also will pay a fraction of the cost of traditional on-campus master&rsquo;s programs; total tuition for the program is initially expected to be below $7,000." U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, "Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have quickly become one of the most significant catalysts of innovation in higher education. As parents know all too well, America urgently needs new ideas about how to make higher education accessible and affordable. This new collaboration between Georgia Tech, AT&amp;T and Udacity, and the application of the MOOC concept to advanced-degree programs, will further the national debate &mdash; pushing from conversations about technology to new models of instruction and new linkages between higher education and employers." Georgia Tech is looking at the big picture: "At present, around 160,000 master&rsquo;s degrees are bestowed in the United States every year in computer science and related subject disciplines; the worldwide market is almost certainly much larger, perhaps even an order of magnitude larger."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Georgia+Tech+and+Udacity+Partner+for+Online+M.S.+in+Computer+Science%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F19sd1Ek"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F15%2F023234%2Fgeorgia-tech-and-udacity-partner-for-online-ms-in-computer-science%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/023234/georgia-tech-and-udacity-partner-for-online-ms-in-computer-science?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/023234/georgia-tech-and-udacity-partner-for-online-ms-in-computer-science?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf35942/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664496305/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf35942/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664496305/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf35942/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664496305/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bf35942/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/M7I_G7yivKs" height="1" width="1"/>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:13:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf35942/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C150C0A232340Cgeorgia0Etech0Eand0Eudacity0Epartner0Efor0Eonline0Ems0Ein0Ecomputer0Escience0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskilleducation2013-05-15T12:13:00Zholy-crapnews0,0,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bf35942/l/0Lnews0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C150C0A232340Cgeorgia0Etech0Eand0Eudacity0Epartner0Efor0Eonline0Ems0Ein0Ecomputer0Escience0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/ZwIpQqI1Bcw/story01.htmtwofishy writes "'To avoid the confusion caused by renumbering releases,' Oracle has announced that it is adopting a new numbering scheme for JDK 5.0, JDK 6 and JDK 7. 'The next Limited Update for JDK 7 will be numbered 7u40, and the next 3 CPUs after that will be numbered 7u45, 7u51, and 7u55." The vendor notes that a more elegant solution would require the changing of the version numbering scheme to accommodate different kinds of changes (for example by using 7u44-2 ). However this cannot be implemented outside of a major release, since doing so might break existing code that parses version strings (possibly including the Java auto-update system)" Here's Oracle's announcement.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=To+Avoid+Confusion%3A+Oracle's+Confusing+New+Java+Numbering+Scheme%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F10LhxhV"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F14%2F1251206%2Fto-avoid-confusion-oracles-confusing-new-java-numbering-scheme%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/14/1251206/to-avoid-confusion-oracles-confusing-new-java-numbering-scheme?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/14/1251206/to-avoid-confusion-oracles-confusing-new-java-numbering-scheme?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2be73833/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165663949095/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2be73833/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165663949095/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2be73833/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165663949095/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2be73833/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/ZwIpQqI1Bcw" height="1" width="1"/>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:10:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2be73833/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C140C125120A60Cto0Eavoid0Econfusion0Eoracles0Econfusing0Enew0Ejava0Enumbering0Escheme0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmtimothyjava2013-05-14T14:10:00Z8only-have-eyes-for-udevelopers8,8,5,4,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2be73833/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C140C125120A60Cto0Eavoid0Econfusion0Eoracles0Econfusing0Enew0Ejava0Enumbering0Escheme0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/RaKYeIYJ468/story01.htmTrailrunner7 writes "It's no secret that Java has moved to the top of the target list for many attackers. It has all the ingredients they love: ubiquity, cross-platform support and, best of all, lots of vulnerabilities. Malware targeting Java flaws has become a major problem, and new statistics show that this epidemic is following much the same pattern as malware exploiting Microsoft vulnerabilities has for years. Research from Microsoft shows that there has been a huge spike in malware targeting Java vulnerabilities since the third quarter of 2011, and much of the activity has centered on patched vulnerabilities in Java. Part of the reason for this phenomenon may be that attackers like vulnerabilities that are in multiple versions of Java, rather than just one specific version."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Massive+Amount+of+Malware+Targets+Older+Java+Flaws%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZVKDq6"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F13%2F2131206%2Fmassive-amount-of-malware-targets-older-java-flaws%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/13/2131206/massive-amount-of-malware-targets-older-java-flaws?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/13/2131206/massive-amount-of-malware-targets-older-java-flaws?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdeb2d8/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664982138/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bdeb2d8/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664982138/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bdeb2d8/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664982138/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bdeb2d8/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/RaKYeIYJ468" height="1" width="1"/>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:19:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdeb2d8/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C130C213120A60Cmassive0Eamount0Eof0Emalware0Etargets0Eolder0Ejava0Eflaws0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusjava2013-05-13T22:19:00Z3soft-targetdevelopers3,3,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdeb2d8/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C130C213120A60Cmassive0Eamount0Eof0Emalware0Etargets0Eolder0Ejava0Eflaws0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/pxUUIBCnDDA/story01.htmtheodp writes "In a widely-read WSJ Op-Ed, English major Kirk McDonald, president of online ad optimization service PubMatic, informed college grads that he considers them unemployable unless they can claim familiarity with at least two programming languages. 'Teach yourself just enough of the grammar and the logic of computer languages to be able to see the big picture,' McDonald advises. 'Get acquainted with APIs. Dabble in a bit of Python. For most employers, that would be more than enough.' Over at Typical Programmer, Greg Jorgensen is not impressed. 'I have some complaints about this "everyone must code" movement,' Jorgensen writes, 'and Mr. McDonald's article gives me a starting point because he touched on so many of them.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ad+Exec%3A+Learn+To+Code+Or+You're+Dead+To+Me%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FZSF8bJ"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F12%2F1851206%2Fad-exec-learn-to-code-or-youre-dead-to-me%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/12/1851206/ad-exec-learn-to-code-or-youre-dead-to-me?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/12/1851206/ad-exec-learn-to-code-or-youre-dead-to-me?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdb8190/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664421951/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bdb8190/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664421951/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bdb8190/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664421951/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bdb8190/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/pxUUIBCnDDA" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 12 May 2013 20:06:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdb8190/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C120C185120A60Cad0Eexec0Elearn0Eto0Ecode0Eor0Eyoure0Edead0Eto0Eme0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmsamzenpusbusiness2013-05-12T20:06:00Z275what-can-you-do-for-me?developers275,272,193,150,49,29,21http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdb8190/l/0Ldevelopers0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C120C185120A60Cad0Eexec0Elearn0Eto0Ecode0Eor0Eyoure0Edead0Eto0Eme0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/oxwuTckSCds/story01.htmMojoKid writes "Is the world really ready to shift from native apps to HTML5 Web apps? Probably not, at least not in North America yet, but developing nations may see it differently. That's the hope with Firefox OS, a web-based operating system that's (in theory) a lot more open. Of course, one needs only look at Microsoft's battle to get Windows Phone into a place of competition to realize that gaining market share is no easy task, which is why Mozilla will soon be handing out Firefox OS developer phones in order to bolster that. The company's goal is to get app builders to build for Firefox OS, so Mozilla is sending out free Preview handsets for folks to tinker with."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Mozilla+Handing+Out+Free+Firefox+OS+Developer+Phones+To+Bolster+App+Marketplace%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13pJ9bY"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F12%2F0242208%2Fmozilla-handing-out-free-firefox-os-developer-phones-to-bolster-app-marketplace%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/12/0242208/mozilla-handing-out-free-firefox-os-developer-phones-to-bolster-app-marketplace?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/12/0242208/mozilla-handing-out-free-firefox-os-developer-phones-to-bolster-app-marketplace?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bcd2036/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664927370/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bcd2036/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664927370/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bcd2036/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664927370/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bcd2036/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/oxwuTckSCds" height="1" width="1"/>Sun, 12 May 2013 06:18:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bcd2036/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C120C0A24220A80Cmozilla0Ehanding0Eout0Efree0Efirefox0Eos0Edeveloper0Ephones0Eto0Ebolster0Eapp0Emarketplace0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillmozilla2013-05-12T06:18:00Z1planting-the-seeds-of-opennesstechnology1,1,0,0,0,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bcd2036/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C120C0A24220A80Cmozilla0Ehanding0Eout0Efree0Efirefox0Eos0Edeveloper0Ephones0Eto0Ebolster0Eapp0Emarketplace0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/ErrX56Jshhc/story01.htmskaffen42 writes "The recent Ask Slashdot about becoming a programmer later in life got me thinking about a related question. How do you deal with programmers who have not stayed current with new technologies? In the hiring process, this is easy; you simply don't hire them. However, at most companies where I've worked, there are usually a few programmers who have been employed long enough that the skill-set they were originally hired for has become irrelevant. At the same time, they have not bothered to stay current with newer technologies. They usually have enough business knowledge that they provide some value to the company, but from a technical perspective they are a slowly-increasing liability. As an example: I work with a developer who is 10 years my senior, but still doesn't understand how to write concurrent code and cannot be trusted to use a revision control system without causing a mess that somebody else will have to clean up. On top of that, he is really resistant to the idea of code reviews; I suspect he dislikes people he considers junior to him making suggestions about how to improve his code. So, how do my fellow Slashdotters handle situations like this? How do you help somebody like this to improve their skill-sets? And, most importantly, how do you do so without stepping on anybody's feelings?"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A+How+Do+You+Deal+With+Programmers+Who+Have+Not+Stayed+Current%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12loe8J"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F11%2F1939217%2Fask-slashdot-how-do-you-deal-with-programmers-who-have-not-stayed-current%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/11/1939217/ask-slashdot-how-do-you-deal-with-programmers-who-have-not-stayed-current?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/11/1939217/ask-slashdot-how-do-you-deal-with-programmers-who-have-not-stayed-current?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bcae29f/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664056634/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bcae29f/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664056634/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bcae29f/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664056634/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/2bcae29f/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/ErrX56Jshhc" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:53:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bcae29f/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C110C19392170Cask0Eslashdot0Ehow0Edo0Eyou0Edeal0Ewith0Eprogrammers0Ewho0Ehave0Enot0Estayed0Ecurrent0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillbusiness2013-05-11T20:53:00Z15twinkie-on-a-stickaskslashdot15,15,11,8,2,0,0http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bcae29f/l/0Lask0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C110C19392170Cask0Eslashdot0Ehow0Edo0Eyou0Edeal0Ewith0Eprogrammers0Ewho0Ehave0Enot0Estayed0Ecurrent0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmhttp://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/rCU3WcbQNDQ/story01.htmAn anonymous reader writes "Jenny Lamere, a graduating high school senior from Nashua NH, was the youngest of 80 participants (and one of only four women) in the Hill Holiday TVnext hackathon held in Boston this past April, a programming contest sponsored by TV API providers. Her submission of 'Twivo,' an app that allows TV viewers to block spoiler tweets while watching a show and recover them later, won the contest's 'Sync to Broadcast' category (one of five), and was also named the event's 'Best in Show' (overall winner). At least one tech company has expressed interest in her app (a short demo and interview with the judges starts at 3:30 in the embedded YouTube clip). Lamere plans to enter the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall, and will pursue a career in software development."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=17-Year-Old+Girl+Wins+Boston+TV+API+Programming+Contest%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13NIMXL"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F11%2F177201%2F17-year-old-girl-wins-boston-tv-api-programming-contest%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/11/177201/17-year-old-girl-wins-boston-tv-api-programming-contest?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/11/177201/17-year-old-girl-wins-boston-tv-api-programming-contest?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdab54a/mf.gif' border='0'/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/rCU3WcbQNDQ" height="1" width="1"/>Sat, 11 May 2013 17:49:00 GMThttp://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdab54a/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C110C17720A10C170Eyear0Eold0Egirl0Ewins0Eboston0Etv0Eapi0Eprogramming0Econtest0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htmSoulskillsoftware2013-05-11T17:49:00Z117strong-worktechnology117,115,81,63,25,8,7http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/2bdab54a/l/0Ltech0Bslashdot0Borg0Cstory0C130C0A50C110C17720A10C170Eyear0Eold0Egirl0Ewins0Eboston0Etv0Eapi0Eprogramming0Econtest0Dutm0Isource0Frss10B0Amainlinkanon0Gutm0Imedium0Ffeed/story01.htm