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The Shifting Technical Interview Process

Usually, this is a slow news period for technology. But there have been a few high profile tech news stories, from Edward Snowden turning into Carmen Sandiego to the Xbox One-Eighty DRM debacle. But one that perhaps flew under the radar was an…

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Added by George Lee on June 23, 2013 at 5:59pm — No Comments

$zend_framework crack

Watch out for a new server infection.  No one is sure but it is thought it begins with brute force guessing of a wordpress login.

Then every php file is prepended with:

Added by Karen Chun on June 16, 2013 at 9:39pm — No Comments

The New Utopia

 

I love to travel, and over time I have had the good fortune to visit a couple of dozen countries around the world. One thing I noticed from country to country was a correlation between the wealth distribution among its populace and the overall stability of the nation. It seemed the happiest and most stable countries had a relatively strong middle class, while…

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Added by Joseph Lui on June 14, 2013 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Job Opening: High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) seeking an Executive Director & CEO

High Technology Development Corporation

Executive Director

Job Posting

 

The High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) is an agency of the State of…

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Added by High Technology Development Corp on June 13, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Start Free and then Scale

You have the latest and greatest idea for a web application. You tell your friends and colleagues, and put together a small team to get the idea rolling. Your programmer, a Ruby on Rails guy, develops a prototype of the web application that works on his machine. You want access to it to show it off, and put it in front of users to get feedback.

Even though you believe in your idea, there's a part of you that's not "all in". You…

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Added by Christopher Kobayashi on May 31, 2013 at 7:30pm — 4 Comments

Online Class On "Matchmoving in 3D Equalizer"

As part of CG Workshops, I'll be teaching  a course on camera tracking for feature films and broadcast post-production utilizing a 3D Equalizer to Maya to Nuke workflow.

 

"Matchmoving in 3D Equalizer" will be an 8-week fully mentored course that begins on June 24 and will be exclusively offered on the cgsociety.com website.

 

Full temporary licenses of 3D Equalizer tracking software will be available for every registered student for the duration of the…

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Added by Francis L. Camacho on May 29, 2013 at 9:46pm — No Comments

Knockout.js

The front-end framework of choice for MVC 4 web applications seems to be Knockout.js.  It's fairly robust and easy to add/remove from projects via NuGet and provides an MVVM feel much like Silverlight or WPF.

Think of a label control used in WPF.  Using data bindings, you tell the label to display certain text.  If the object representing the text displayed is updated, WPF kindly…

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Added by Timothy Little on May 28, 2013 at 3:37pm — 1 Comment

Salesforce Dreamforce conference ---early registration through June 4th (for Nov 18-21)

http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF13/

For businesses the is the best rate...the price will continue to climb from here. It is also a great time to reserve your hotel. With 90,000 attendees last year, it is important to register early 

To understand what Dreamforce is like...

check out you tube, past keynotes are there and workshops/sessions.

it is part rock concert, part…

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Added by Bonnie B. Hilory on May 25, 2013 at 11:01pm — No Comments

What Drives You to Innovate or Be Productive?

A firestorm erupted after chief Yahoo Marissa Mayer banned working from home in an effort to shock the moribund company culture back to life. The resulting debate over whether working from home was good for corporate innovation and productivity is, to me, not all that interesting. I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t work from home even after putting in a full day at the office -- at the very least, they check and respond to office emails and make work-related calls during…

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Added by Tzyh Ng on May 17, 2013 at 2:57pm — 2 Comments

My Experiences with Windows Phone 8

Last winter I bought a Lumia 920 which runs Windows Phone 8.  Windows Phone 8 is a large overhaul of Windows Phone 7 because now it uses the same kernel as Windows 8.  It also added support for better hardware and a more flexible development framework. Previously I have used the original iPhone, the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy Nexus Google Android phone. I have never seen anyone with a Windows Phone and I thought it looked neat so I decided to try it…

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Added by Douglas Ching on May 10, 2013 at 11:36am — 1 Comment

"What! You have revenue?!" Surprising high points along the way to launch.

So last week I flew over to Oahu and had brunch with Daniel Leuck (whom you all know if you read TechHui).  It was a great trip, but one of the highlights of it for me was his absolute surprise we had revenue.  Apparently this is a big deal.

He had to explain it to me, because I was clueless.  Daniel is of course…

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Added by Douglas Levin on May 9, 2013 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

You don't have to be at the same desk (or even the same continent) to pair program with someone

In case you are not super familiar with pair programming here are the core essentials of how it works.  Two programmers sit in front of the computer they are working on and slide the keyboard/mouse back and forth. The person with the controls is called the driver the other is navigator or observer.  To those that have never done it before it can sound kind of stupid but when it's done right it can actually be…

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Added by Chris Sass on April 26, 2013 at 2:45pm — 1 Comment

Tech Visa Update

Political junkies (like me) and immigration stakeholders (including many technology employers) have been watching as the immigration reform process moves forward in the current congressional session. After much watching and speculation (see for example, earlier posts here) about what impact this will have on the high tech industry, there is now a bill being offered in the U.S.…

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Added by John Robert Egan on April 21, 2013 at 9:20pm — No Comments

The Changing Face of Software Development in Japan

Our Night Out with Heroku Japan & Friends

During our trip to Japan last month we got to enjoy an evening out with the Heroku team. We've enjoyed using their platform for years across many projects, so it was good…

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Added by Daniel Leuck on April 17, 2013 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Javascript Testing with Mocha and Chai

It has been more than 6 months since I launched RedeemHi5.com, which I wrote about in one of my first blog posts. The launch hasn't been perfect; the most major issue is that the connection to the database gets lost and it doesn't reconnect, thus leaving people with a loading screen. The first thing to do, of course, is to fix it. In addition, though, I wanted to add tests to document these issues and maintain some peace of mind as I…

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Added by George Lee on April 10, 2013 at 3:13pm — 2 Comments

MVC4 and Rails

I have been immersed in Rails development for the last several months and I almost always recommend Rails as the best platform for raising a new website from scratch.  Recently, though, an opportunity came up to work on a .NET MVC 4 project. Great, I thought.  I get to switch back to my favorite language (C#) and still develop in an MVC framework.

Below, I will compare some major feature areas of both frameworks:…

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Added by Timothy Little on April 7, 2013 at 11:33pm — 1 Comment

Call to STEM

Recently, I have come across this infographic floating around the web that I believe deserves more attention. You can see the full version here. It illustrates the labor pool shortage we are experiencing in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) related fields. Some key…

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Added by Joseph Lui on March 27, 2013 at 4:13pm — 3 Comments

Write You're Own eBook in Markdown with Ruby and Github Pages

Many of us have either had the urge to write a book or spew some sort of long-winded excrement of words.  Maybe it's a story that's been bouncing around in your head, a piece of history you would like to document, or a coalescence of documentation/blog posts on a subject you are passionate about. Regardless of the reason they all require the same thing.  The ability to…

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Added by Chris Sass on March 25, 2013 at 3:00pm — 4 Comments

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

When I first learned javascript, I mainly used the jQuery library for small interactions (select something/do something) and adding very basic behavior to the websites I worked on. At the time, it was no big deal to just throw all of my simple jQuery methods and functions in a .js file…

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Added by Mike King on March 22, 2013 at 4:41pm — 4 Comments

Think Functionally

It wasn't so long ago that functional programming seemed to be an arcane science. If you knew Haskell, Standard ML, or Common Lisp, you've either been programming for a very long time, involved in computer science research, or just had a lot of free time on your hands. However, functional programming has been making a comeback with…

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Added by George Lee on March 22, 2013 at 1:22pm — 4 Comments

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