In a recent blog article, Soon Hui considered the different in pay scale between highly skilled developers and stars in other fields, such as music and sports. It is not hard to understand why they can’t do as much as rock stars. The main reason is that programmers are not able to run the show alone. Programmers…
I recently received a new Amazon Kindle as a gift, and was very positively surprised by the product. It provides an intuitive way to read books, and even better, it provides online access to lots of content. The first form of online content is, of course, the Amazon kindle store. The primary reason why Amazon…
Here is a list of the links that I found more interesting today: Something I suspected for long: language doesn’t matter for scalability http://tinyurl.com/6l8ay9 Company applications for the iphone fund were found with Google search:http://ad.vu/6fj3 More best practices in php http://ad.vu/z88v Another perspective of government help (from WSJ) http://ad.vu/4vc A fun application for the bailout :-) http://ad.vu/67n A nice…