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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

www.redmonk.com

» 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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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010.

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Oracle’s Java API Suit Against Google – Five Years Later

Feld Thoughts

Five years ago, in August 2010, I asked the question Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point? Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun. “The s**t finally hits the fan… Thursday August 12, 2010. ” Oracle also got copyrights to the Java APIs.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

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But when it comes to learning a new technology, this tendency can also be a handicap. A new technology is only interesting if it does something different from existing technologies. Viewing everything as an old trick in new clothing conceals exactly the interesting aspects of a new technology. These "aha!"