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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? So the cool kids aren’t using Java.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? So the cool kids aren’t using Java.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

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My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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If an implementation cant easily be estimated by a development team, if there is a unique technical challenge that needs discovery, if there is a new technology involved, or if a technology is being used in a new way then I place them in the "architecture and prototyping" quadrant. Strategic Technology. ► 2005. (1).

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

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Up to 2005 they were the only solution supported by all major browsers at the time. Treehouse is the best way to learn technology skills that can change your life. Along the way, you’ll learn technologies like Ruby on Rails, and this project will give you all the tools you need to build a wide range of web apps. Old school.

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Technology stack choice for startups

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Technology stack choice for startups. My short answer is: specializing in a single technology only is somewhat risky, as the world keeps changing. My short answer is: specializing in a single technology only is somewhat risky, as the world keeps changing. They would adapt to any technology. method=post. 2 responses.