Archive for November, 2007

CodeRage II - Day One completed - come join the tech sessions for the rest of this week

Monday, November 26th, 2007

CodeRage II day one is complete.  We had more than 1500 registered attendees.  So many, that we had to open up more slots for attendees to join the fun.  Tomorrow, and for the rest of the week, there are still almost 40 technical sessions taking place for Java, C++, Delphi, PHP, InterBase, Ruby and Rails, and some partner […]

US workers happiness index - 30.1% of programmers are very happy

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

In the recent Time magazine report on "One Day in America", the issue lists the American workers hapiness index.  The index lists jobs by the percentage of workers in a category that report they are very happy with their job.
Computer programmers, in the Computers and Technology category, are listed as 30.1% very happy with their […]

Google’s Android uses its own virtual machine for Java

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

From the IDG internet news feed: Google’s Android mobile platform uses its own virtual machine for Java and not Sun’s Java Micro Edition platform.  Google and Sun may Android’s virtual machine is named Dalvik.  The article quoted Stefano Mazzocchi, a developer and board member at Apache Labs, who is quoted saying that Sun may not have […]

We’ve open CodeRage II to everyone!

Monday, November 19th, 2007

CodeRage II Starts in Less than 7 Days!…
We’ve had tons of customers register for CodeRage II already. And we’ve also listened to your feedback over the past few weeks. We’ve heard from our loyal customers that they want to take part even though they might still be evaluating the latest versions of our products. Some […]

Marco Cantu’s "Delphi 2007 Handbook"

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I received a wonderful suprise in the mail after I returned from all my travels (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Washington DC).  Opening up a package, I found a copy of Marco Cantu’s "Delphi 2007 Handbook".
The 258 page, perfect bound paperback book, was self published via the LuLu.com web site. The handbook, written during June-September 2007, […]

Recent articles about Java, Ruby, etc…

Friday, November 9th, 2007

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 […]

One Laptop per Child - get one, give one…

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

I have been following Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative since its inception.  This month, starting November 12th in North America, OLPC is running a "get one, give one" program.  For $399 you can get the laptop and also have one sent to a child in a developing country.  The details are available on the […]


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